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Normal hours of operation are:
January – March and October – December Monday – Friday 7AM to 3:30 PM
April – September Monday – Thursday 6 AM to 4:30 PM. Hours are adjusted for road emergencies.
General information about the Rindge Highway Department
The Rindge Highway Department maintains sixty miles of town roads. Many of these roads have over two hundred years of history. Traffic and vehicle loads have changed dramatically within the last seventy-five years.
Each year your five-man crew performs three different types of road maintenance, routine, preventative, and reconstruction.
Routine things are trimming brush away from the road edge, cleaning the ditch line, and culverts.
Over four thousand feet of culvert pipe are in need of some type of repair. Add documented winter ice problems (water backing up on roads) and you have a few examples of preventative maintenance. The crew replaced over one thousand feet of culvert pipe in each of the last four years.
We select each year several miles of paved road, for reconstruction based on condition, traffic load, geography, and other factors. The paving contract goes to bid in early March. We advertise a crush gravel bid around the same time. We use some crush gravel for dirt road improvements and some for paved road reconstruction. Town equipment moved over seven thousand yards of material each of the last four years.
Winter maintenance varies from year to year depending on snow load and the time of day it arrives. Please for your own safety, do not tailgate snow equipment and slow down when approaching snow-fighting equipment.
This fall the Board of Selectmen adopted a snow and ice policy. Copies are available at the Town Office.
Please install mailboxes as far out of the right-of-way as possible. Most often snow from the plows, not the plow itself is responsible for damage.
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