The Dallas County Supervisors, acting Tuesday on the recommendation of Dallas County Engineer Al Miller, imposed a weight-limit embargo of up to 90 days on roads within the Granger Homesteads area west of Granger.
The embargo took effect April 2.
“These roads have a pretty severe frost-boil problem right now,” Miller said. “Local access is really all we’d recommend at this point until things settle out.”
The embargo limits the weight of vehicles allowed on the roadways to 8 tons gross. Heavier vehicles, such as school buses and garbage trucks, are prohibited from the area while the emargo is in force, but ordinary passenger vehicles will be allowed normal access, Miller said.
“We have to let Mother Nature have her way and once things settle out and dry, we can move forward and fix those roads,” he said
Miller said repairs would entail coring out and removing the damaged material, replacing it with granular material and resealing the roadway.
The Woodward-Granger Community School District was informed of the embargo and agreed to keep buses off the roadways, Miller said, and private property owners will need to make arrangements for garbage collection and “work that out with whoever their garbage hauler is.”
He said he has seen smaller vehicles used to shuttle trash to the larger garbage trucks on the unembargoed roadways.
“You really need to kind of bite the bullet and let Mother Nature take care of the frost issue and then make the road repairs when the road has settled down,” he said.
The following road segments are included in the embargo:
• All of Homestead Drive including Homestead Circle and Homestead Lower Circle
• Finestead Drive from 190th (F31) north and east to terminus
• Estates Way from Highway 141 to Homestead Drive
• Jordan Lane from Homestead Drive southeast to terminus
• Estates Circle from Highway 141 northeast to terminus
• Wendover Way from 190th (F31) northwest to terminus
The Dallas County Secondary Road Department has erected signs to advise the traveling public of the temporary weight limits.
