The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1914-06-12

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side bitches. If you look closely
you will see side bitches which have
grown up with bushes and weeds in
in many cases, and which are so far
from the travelled part If the road
that the rain water does not drain
into them. That part of the road
way where wagons travel is called
the travelled way. To prevent water
from standing on the travelled way
the road should be raised in the CEN
ter and should slope gently into
broad shallow bitches. 1t is then
said to have crown. If ii is 10
feet from the center of the road to
the side ditch, the surface at the
side ditch should be at least 10
inches lower than it is at the center
where the borses travel, The road
then has 10 inch crown. The rain
that falls on a road properly crown
ed will run quickly to the side and
not soak into the surface or form
pools. The side bitches for surface
water should run parallel to the right
of way. and should be open at every
low point so that the water can run
out of them into neighboring brooks
or streams. If the bitches merely
collects the water from the road sur
face and it cannot run away, large
pools will be formed along the road
side, which will gradually soak into
the soil beneath the road and make
it so soft that the wheels of wagons
will cut through the road surface
and soon destroy it.
Sometimes water runs from land |
along the road into the road aid
forms little stream down the wheel
tracks or in the middle where the
horses travel When driveways in
10 farm yards are built across the
side bitches they frequently form
channels for the water from the
farm yard to run into the road.
The pipes under driyeways become
filed with leaves or rubbish and the
water can no longer run away. II
the driveways that stop the ditch
water We're rebuilt so that no pipes
we're necessary and the ditch could
be left open, much trouble from
surface water would be stopped.
Sometimes a road runs across low
ground or through a swamp where
he road cannot be drained by side
litches alone. If the road we're
Quilt higher like a railroad embank-
nent across such low laud and made
With o crown, it would be dry and
1ard. Sometimes a road passes
through what is called a cut. This
8 q place where the earth he's been
lug cut so that the road can go over
/ hill without being too steep.
The water which always flows quiet
Y under the ground on hill sides is
Known as ground water. In road
,uts such water sometimes makes
he road very muddy, and the road
hen needs what road builders call
A good kind of I'M
lerdrainage is a trench to go along
lnder the side drain and about 3
leep and foot and half wide. In
his trench a pipe is laid near the
bottom and covered with loose
tones no bigger than an egg. When
he trench is completely filled with
oose stones the ground water, in
tead of soaking into the roadway,
will stop among the stones and flow
lown the hill through the pipe.
To keep a road smooth and
the best method is to drag
t with a road drag A road drag
8 made easily with two halves of a
og which has been split. The log
hould be about 6 or s inches in
thickness and about Cor s feet long.
The two halves of the log are set
feet apart with smooth faces for.
yard and upright. They are then
astened together with baaces set in
loles bored through the log. A
,air of horres may be used to drag
he road and are hitched to a chain
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