Town of La Valle Public Works Department has the responsibility to maintain 75 miles of roads, which encompasses 136 different named roads which 101 are dead end roads. All roads are 66 fee wide, all of the roads except 6, are paved in some way.
Duties include: Snow plowing-75 Miles which total to 150 miles, filling pot-holes, repairing road shoulders, mowing and maintaining ditches, repairing signs, repairing culverts, cut brush and trim trees over and into the roads, maintain all equipment including boat and vehicle repairs.
Public works department also completes, and files nessesary report for State and Federal government. The public works department works with various contractors, maintains building and grounds, assists the police/boat patrol by placing buoy's early summer and retrieving buoy's in the fall.
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Liquid Brine Treatment of Town Roads
The Town of La Valle is following the recommendation of the University of Wisconsin Transportation Center in its treatment of winter roads for the 2012 winter season. This new method of treating roads requires the spreading of a brine solution on dry roads prior to snow or ice accumulation. Liquid brine treatment of roads has been used with success in the northern part of the state. The benefits of the process are threefold. First, it encourages the melting of snow and ice upon contact with the pavement. Second, it reduces the number of passes required by the snowplow. Last, it reduces the amount of salt placed into the environment. We will be tracking the success of the liquid brine treatment.
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| salt brine process |
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| brine road treatment - prewetting |
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