The Caswell Lakes Road Service Area Board will meet this week to discuss a materials storage site. Board Chair DJ McBride says the site is needed to provide a location to store traction sand and other road materials in the Caswell Lakes area.
The site has been on the Board’s Road Improvement Project, or RIP, list for several years. Twice it was removed by the Assembly, but has since been added back. McBride says the RSA Board is trying to look ahead about 20 years, with the understanding that the Mat-Su Borough is growing.
Caswell Lakes currently gets traction materials from Big Lake, which is costly. This site will provide storage space for those traction materials, as well as new and salvaged road materials. All the materials from the road repairs in the Caswell Lakes area this year had to be hauled out by the contractor for disposal…