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Repaving in December?!?!? WTQ!!!!!
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City of Quincy laying hot asphalt during cold weather in spite of Best Practices against doing so.

Quincy Quarry has been receiving word of the City of Quincy inexplicably laying new pavement here and there on some of Quincy’s many poorly maintained streets after the weather turned cold as well as also after asphalt plants usually stop making asphalt given higher energy costs after mid-November, barring special orders at premium prices.

Additionally note that state guidelines recommend November 15 as the cutoff date for non-emergency, paving projects barring compliance with exacting cold weather paving criteria.

Below 50 degree Fahrenheit poses problems
Image via Prarie Haven

Below 50 degrees, various extra steps are supposed to be undertaken so as to assure proper and long-lasting paving.

Further, depending on the nature of the paving work, barring an emergency need, no paving should be done when air and ground temperatures are 40 degrees or lower. 

Then again, the Koch Maladministration received approval of its $100 million road repair bond ask earlier this year and thus this money is surely burning a hole in its pocket even if asphalt laid this time of year is not burning hot.

In any event, care of a Quincy Quarry Photojournalist, a drive-by shooting of images were taken of an ongoing repaving project on this first as well as cold morning in December.

The repaving is slated for mostly of Sturtevant Road, a short street near the President Adams’ Peace Field National Park lined with but ten mostly seven-figure homes, and a short run of Adams Street where it intersects with Sturtevant.

Then again, the old pavement for Sturtevant Road was a bit worn and thus its wealthy residents surely had nothing to do with anything with this seeing small as well as late in the year paving project happen.

Long paved over storm drain, left; even longer fully clogged storm drain, right.
Conjoined Citizen Photojournalist images

Quincy Quarry considered reaching out to Larry Prendeville, the Superindent at the City of Quincy’s Department of Public Works and thus its second in command for comment on this project; however, “Fat Larry” has long steered clear of the Quarry after improperly seeing to it that Quincy Police command rank officers illegally remove someone now tied to the Quarry from a public meeting. 

Similarly, the Quarry saw no point in bothering with reaching out to Department of Public Works Commissioner “Skinny Al” Graziozo given that previously he had long and often wall-jobbed the very same individual who Fat Larry had abused when this duly concerned local repeatedly advised Skinny Al of clogged storm drains along a busy local thoroughfare.

At the same time, as well as in all fairness, it does appear that at the time DPW subordinates were, in turn, wall-jobbing him that the problems had been fixed when in point of fact they had not.

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