Background:
Timberline was originally platted as a cabin community back in 1964. Our Class "D" road widths and grades are far outside of the accepted norms for Summit County so TSSD was created to maintain and improve them. May to October is the window for road maintenance and improvements. Much effort is made each summer to get the roads to drain properly. Non-existent or non functional culverts get replaced by TSSD as needed. As of fall 2020 TSSD has nearly completed a 4 year cycle of widening roadways as feasible and improving drainages. Expect to see equipment working re-touching ditches each spring as silt and erosion are a constant challenge in this mountainous area.
Several years ago TSSD began supplementing road base with recycled asphalt pavement (RAP). Used in conjunction with Calcium Chloride application, the roadways harden nicely over the summer with less dust than road base alone. While the surface is fairly durable, wheelspin and traveling faster than the 15MPH speed limit creates dust which negatively affects your neighbors.
TSSD makes every effort to alert residents prior to the application of Calcium Chloride because until it binds to the road materials, it is quite corrosive to paint and steel vehicle components.
High traffic areas that continue to get rutted, pot-holed or wash boarded may end up getting paved as it is more cost effective in the long run.

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