. Water & sewage works . llowing: 219 longitudinal cracks, 80transverse cracks, 42 diagonal cracks, 14holes, making a total of 355 defective sec-tions, or per cent. In 1912 this roadwas paved to within lH miles of thecounty line, and this year completed tothe county line, but no record was takenfarther west than the east limits of thevillage of Wayne. All observers unite in considering thissection a fine example of a good concreteroad. In 1910, 149 sections of concrete 15-ft. wide and GVl. inches deep were laid on theRiver road, using gravel and sand for theaggregate and a 1:2:4 mix. Tho
. Water & sewage works . llowing: 219 longitudinal cracks, 80transverse cracks, 42 diagonal cracks, 14holes, making a total of 355 defective sec-tions, or per cent. In 1912 this roadwas paved to within lH miles of thecounty line, and this year completed tothe county line, but no record was takenfarther west than the east limits of thevillage of Wayne. All observers unite in considering thissection a fine example of a good concreteroad. In 1910, 149 sections of concrete 15-ft. wide and GVl. inches deep were laid on theRiver road, using gravel and sand for theaggregate and a 1:2:4 mix. Tho soil overwhich this road runs is for the most partheavy clay. Tho count shows as follows:49 longitudinal cracks, 5 transverse cracks,G diagonal cracks and 2 holes, making atotal of 62 defective sections or percent. The traffic count shows 538 vehi-cles daily, of which per cent, weremotor driven. In 1911, 434 sections were added to thisroad some distance below the village ofTrenton. The pavement was 15 ft. URFACE of Fort Road, 1910 badly scaled. ^ 7 inches thick, built of washed pebblesand sand for the aggregate, using a1:1%: 3 mix. The count for this stretchof road shows as follows: 165 longitudi-nal cracks, 17 transverse cracks, 13 diago-nal cracks and no holes, a total of 195defective sections or per cent. In 1912, the gap between this piece ofroad and the southerly limits of the vil-lage of Trenton was closed in with asimilar pavement to that just described,comprising 213 sections. The count onthis piece shows defects as follows: 14 Noveml>er, 412 MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING longitudinal cracks, S transverse cracks,4 diagonal cracks and no holes, makinga total of 26 sections or per cent. The same year there was added to thesouth end of the work done in 1911 some-thing over two miles of concrete road-way, but of this only 208 sections werecounted. Of the sections counted, 17show longitudinal cracks, 9 transversecracks, no diagonal cra
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