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Another means of covering our operating cost and "Making Conservation Work For
You", Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District provides services
for a fee. Click below to see a description of these services:
Technical Assistance Promotional Brochure
(pdf)
Heavy Rainfall Causing Shoreline Banks, Roads and Driveways to
Disappear?
Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District has
a solution to the cost, time and effort needed to prevent the demise of your
gravel roads and driveways and the quality of streams and lake water.
Proper road maintenance is key to preventing materials from gravel roads
and driveways potentially polluting steams and lakes.
The Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District
owns a Front Runner that can be rented, by those having completed the Front
Runner/Grader Gravel Road Maintenance Workshop training, at a cost of $75 for
the first 24 hours and $50 per day thereafter. Contact the District Office
at 753-9400 ext 400 if interested in renting this front end rake to be mounted
on plow truck.
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For any who have not had the training and need Front Runner operator to do gravel road
maintenance for privately owned roads, call Dan Landreville of
Greene at 946-4597. He has been trained and offers his service for
a fee which includes rental for the District's Front Runner. State of Maine "Dig Safe Law"
Requires Having a Permit Ticket for Gravel Road Grading
All
gravels roads that are graded using
mechanical means to do so need to get a Dig Safe ticket to do
it.
Dig Safe tickets right now expire every 30 days
but that part of
the
law will soon be
changed to expiring every 60 days.
The Damage
Prevention Law
–(Dig Safe law)
in the
State of Maine has a
definition of
Excavation as follows:
Excavation.
"Excavation" means any
operation in which earth, rock or other material below the
ground is moved or otherwise displaced, by means of power tools,
power equipment or explosives and includes
grading,
trenching, digging, ditching, drilling, auguring, tunneling,
scraping
and cable or pipe driving,
except tilling of soil and gardening or displacement of earth,
rock or other material for agricultural purposes.
As you can see,
grading and
scraping would be the same as
Road Grading. There is a new part of
the
law about Road Grading but it
does not apply to private roads and Associations.
Call the Dig Safe
Office:
287-5494 to obtain your permit ticket.
The Dig Safe program is not too difficult for landowners or road
groups. But, it is an added thing to do which I suspect most
have not been doing. You need to contact Dig Safe at least 3
business days before you start work and then identify the site
where the work is going to occur. Perhaps a sign at the entrance
to the road would be adequate. It is up to the utilities to mark
any of their infrastructure. I suspect most camp roads have no
infrastructure buried, but it is still a legal requirement to
contact Dig Safe.
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