If it’s not slush dirtying up our automobiles — it’s dirt and dust.
With practically all of the winter snow gone and very little rain having fallen, local roads have quite an accumulation of dirt and sand.
Georgian Bluffs has received calls from residents complaining about the dust being kicked up on municipal roads.
But Deputy Mayor Dwight Burley says the decision was made to wait until the end of March before a tractor would be used to sweep roads and intersections where the accumulations are highest.
Until then, the township will keep the blower on the tractor just in case of an early-spring squall.
Burley — the Chair of the Township’s Transportation Committee — says it’s also hoped a good spring rain will soon fall to help wash away the dirt.
In the meantime, the disappearance of the snow and the frost means the township has been able to grade all of its gravel roads.
Burley is happy that chore is out of the way so early in the season.
Georgian Bluffs’ transportation committee will take a tour on April 12th of the municipal roads as part of its examination of projects to be done in 2010.
Councillors not on the committee have been invited to go along.