The Caswell Lakes Road Service Area Board will meet this week to discuss a materials storage site. Board Chair DJ McBride says the site is needed to provide a location to store traction sand and other road materials in the Caswell Lakes area.
The site has been on the Board’s Road Improvement Project, or RIP, list for several years. Twice it was removed by the Assembly, but has since been added back. McBride says the RSA Board is trying to look ahead about 20 years, with the understanding that the Mat-Su Borough is growing.
Caswell Lakes currently gets traction materials from Big Lake, which is costly. This site will provide storage space for those traction materials, as well as new and salvaged road materials. All the materials from the road repairs in the Caswell Lakes area this year had to be hauled out by the contractor for disposal.
McBride says about five acres of the 40-acre site will be dedicated to the materials storage. It is located at the corner of Cutthroat Drive and Twentyinch Avenue. The remainder of the site has been earmarked for a park space, which has not been built out yet.
The Board and residents will have a chance at the meeting Monday evening to see what’s been done and what still needs to be done at the site. McBride says the site has been partially cleared and that next year, they hope to continue clearing, get a survey and build out the site with gravel. Ultimately, McBride says the goal is to have power and a locking gate so contractors can park equipment there overnight and reduce transportation costs for materials.
The next Caswell Lakes RSA Board meeting will be on October 13 at Sheep Creek Lodge at 6:30 pm, where McBride says they’ll discuss the RIP list. The public is welcome to attend.
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