WASHOUT ON INDUSTRIAL ROAD NEAR CARAMAT
FROM EDITOR: I was very please to receive this Industrial Road update from Edgar Lavoie from Greenstone as I had been wondering, how long would it take for Industrial Road to be no longer ‘driv-able’ from Manitouwadge to Greenstone [CLICK HERE for the first article about when the MNR posted their itsy bitsy sign telling people the industrial road was no longer maintained] as I believe people underestimate how much logging company maintenance is involved in keeping bush roads in good condition.
Industrial Road (photographer on Manitouwadge side of washout) just past the Stevens railway crossing. Photos Edgar J. Lavoie
Photos courtesy Edgar J. Lavoie ©2013
Photo courtesy Edgar J. Lavoie ©2013
GREENSTONE, ON – Thursday, August 8th, travellers encountered a major washout on the road linking Manitouwadge and Greenstone (specifically Caramat).
The Ministry of Natural Resources had posted a warning sign near town, close to the start of the Caramat Industrial Road. A similar sign at Stevens, 69 kilometres up the road, conveyed the same message just before the washout.
Some parties had created a berm on the Manitouwadge side of the washout, and another barrier could be spotted far away on the Caramat side. It is not known if Caramat had a caution sign about the road condition.
A huge metal culvert was spotted in the bush downstream on the norteast side of the washout. The flood had exposed ancient log cribbing that had probably stabilized the roadbed across the stream.
RELATED ARTICLES
- Letter to Public From Manitouwadge Residents Concerned with Loss of Maintenance of Industrial Road (June 12, 2013)
- INDUSTRIAL ROAD CONCERNS: Update (June 25, 2013)
- Interview with Michael Mantha re: Manitouwadge Industrial Road to Greenstone no longer (July 18, 2013) maintained (VIDEO)
