An indication that we have been having heavy traffic past our home is when a water truck makes multiple passes during the day to keep the dust down on our concrete road. Four blocks north from our home the city is digging out a holding pond that is to work directly with the infrastructure to take pressure off of the storm sewers when we have heavy rains. It encompasses two city blocks and it is deep. That is from Dennis who does a daily trip to that area for a report. The city had used that area for decades as a spot to get rid of dirt type refuse of building and street projects. There are side dumps, and gravel trucks of various sizes and colors that keep up a steady flow going to and from. It is all getting hauled out to the south end of town. State, county and city are working together to fill in a spot out south that will become a huge parking lot to handle a portable cement plant when highway 60 is rebuilt next year. With all the rain of this area, the hauls are nothing but huge clumps of wet clay. Wet clay on tires drags it onto the city streets. The company has their own street sweeper that also runs by multiple times. Talk about dust composed of clay. The water truck does about as much good as me peeing on the street. No windows open until after seven in the evening. The haul from seven to seven.
Last year the heavy traffic put in place detours in town past our home as we had two round-abouts that were placed. Some day we will again be a quiet small town dwelling.