Eldred Township’s Public Works Department is finished with oil and chip roadwork for the season.

Jonathan Gula, the supervisor of the Public Works Department, told the supervisors last week that crews concentrated on the eastern half of the township this summer.

In this section, Gula said the eastern half of Fiddletown Road was paved around 2016, so it didn’t need much work done to it.

“I was brought up in the world that what’s good, keep good; and what’s bad, wait until you have the right amount of money to fix it the right way,” Gula said.

The crews did do a paving project on Quail Road.

“We had about 1,000 foot of road that was just the point where it was deteriorating. Mud was pushing up through it, and oil and chip and patching it was no longer going to work,” Gula said.

The township received assistance from Tunkhannock and Ross townships, which helped by providing a paver and truck, and an employee from Ross Township who ran the roller.

“I was kicking around, renting a paver. It was going to cost me about $5,000, so we did it in house for roughly, just materials alone,” Gula said. “That was the biggest in-house paving project ever done by Eldred Township.”

Gula said it was a small project in comparison to what construction companies do, but big for them.

“We’re not professionals. It’s not 100%, but for what we have material- wise and equipment-wise, it’s a good job. And that was one of the roads I was concerned about losing completely,” he said. “I think with that patch job and some oil and chip, we probably can hold off for another six or seven years to pave that. Whereas, it was in my three-year time frame to hopefully get paved. It bought us some time.”

Gula also reported that the recycling event was successful. They had three 40-yard dumpsters filled, a single-axle dump truck filled with tires, three pallets of televisions to be recycled and 6,000 pounds of scrap metal.

The township recouped about $800, so that was enough to pay for one of the dumpsters, Gula said. Another plus was that people were very happy about the extended hours, and several people came in during those extended hours.

“It worked out well for us,” Gula said.