Gravel Road Construction
Gravel Road Construction
(OP)
I'm looking at providing an all weather road to support large trucks, equivalent to 53' trailers. The road will be about 600' long. We have local materials to use for the base course and can obtain 2" clean crushed material. The road will be used infrequently, but will be maintained. The existing soil it will be founded on is a dense gravel, clay mix.
Is it possible to build up about 4' of base using Granular "A" material (this is a reasonably well graded granular material that can be readily compacted) and put 6" to a 1' of clean crush and have this act as a road? I'm looking at a compaction effort of about 97% MPDD.
Does anyone have any references?
Dik
Is it possible to build up about 4' of base using Granular "A" material (this is a reasonably well graded granular material that can be readily compacted) and put 6" to a 1' of clean crush and have this act as a road? I'm looking at a compaction effort of about 97% MPDD.
Does anyone have any references?
Dik





RE: Gravel Road Construction
http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/gravelroads/
At the time I was working in the midwest inspecting about 3000 miles of gravel roads.
RE: Gravel Road Construction
Dik
RE: Gravel Road Construction
RE: Gravel Road Construction
Here is the NYS spec for gravel road material, courtesy of the Cornell Local Roads Program: http:
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RE: Gravel Road Construction
Dik
RE: Gravel Road Construction
You will have to decide if it's worth the time/money to haul in 3/4" minus-well-graded material, vs. having to deal with a rough road throughout its use.
RE: Gravel Road Construction
Dik