there are no curbs or drains on out street and every year our front yard would suffer a lot of erosion. A couple of years ago I made a poor mans curb with some cobblestones from Home Depot. This worked pretty well until this past winter a town snow plow smashed up a bunch and because they were at the end of our property i didn’t worry much about it.
Fast forward to September and there is a major erosion issue at the end of our property and going onto to the street. We have contacted the town and not gotten any response. Is there anything i can do on my own? Add more cobblestones back to divert the water flow and dumping gravel into the eroded spots is what i am thinking. I am worried about damage to the road and the city saying we are on the hook for it
by Pleasant-Selection70
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That whole area will be your county road commission’s easement. You should be able to get somewhere by reaching out to them. Where I’m at small towns and cities can give their roads to the county for maintenance so that could be what’s going on.
It looks like the water wants to run into that natural area. I’d make it a ditch, just not very wide so if the snow plow runs over it, the tire won’t get stuck. Put in plenty of gravel.
Then, build a berm so melting snow and road rain funnels to the ditch. Plant that ground cover you have on it to stabilize.
Last, put in some tall road reflectors to help drivers see the road edge even when there’s snow. Or, drop in some tall evergreens, like American Holly.
Road needs a gravel shoulder. Erosion will eat out along the pavement and remove any lateral support and the edge of the pavement will break off.
Nope. You would need something referred to as “Graded Aggregate Base Course-GAB” or “Crusher Run” which have particles from sand size up to about 3/4″ and angular (not round) so it can be compacted. Normally with a vibrating packing sled but you could get by with a 10″ or 12″ square hand tamper.