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Resident criticizes Page County road maintenance after February blading left rock, turf damage
Summary
At a Page County meeting, resident Tom Wagner criticized county road operations and a contractor’s work that he says left rock on road surfaces and bladed sod into his driveway after mid-February maintenance.
Tom Wagner, a Page County resident, told the board that he received an engineer’s response about winter maintenance that did not address his concerns and described the county’s past approach as “complacency.”
Wagner said the county’s machinery pushed newly placed rock off the road and into ditches after light snow on Monday, Feb. 17, and that a later blade pass left sod from his yard in his driveway. He said a photo shows the hardening snow by Saturday evening, and that on Tuesday the 18th one machine had bladed the roadway and the following day another machine “traveling at a fast rate” pushed rock into the ditch. “That distance is 4 foot as measured where a photo clearly shows sod was bladed from the yard and placed in the driveway of my property,” Wagner said.
Wagner questioned why newly placed rock was left on the road surface in February if county crews expected more snow and said the county’s prior handling of a hot-mix asphalt project on M63 reflected a lack of corrective action. “Your response to this issue is indicative of your past complacency and lack of corrective action,” he said. He later added, “Taxpayer dollars should not pay for complacency.”
Wagner credited a recent change to how the county handles fines and dust as “a step” but urged continued improvement and more consistent corrective measures. He also said he had previously raised concerns with the engineer and supervisors without results and called for testing or further inspection of oil-rich spots and patched areas on roadways.
No board member asked questions after Wagner’s remarks, and the meeting proceeded to the engineer update.
Wagner’s comments were delivered during the meeting’s public-comment period and were recorded by the clerk; the transcript captures his concerns about rock placement, machine blade positioning and a specific measurement of four feet of blading onto his property.
