Paving the Viscri Church Street

You might be interested in how you can create a river stone pavement?

-the stone is collected from the river or from the outer surface layer of the terrain. Commercially, in the quarry, this type of stone is called “sieve refusal stone”. What does that mean? Simply that the stones don’t have the same shapes.

-after acquiring the stones craftsmen who are familiar with the technique or people eager to learn this trade are needed. The essential thing to learn is that the river stone must be inserted with its sharp/conical side in the loamy sand bed.

-it is also important to follow a few simple rules, for example: the pavement must be given a 5% slope near the drain.

-the stones must be placed very close to one another so that they cannot move if a heavy goods vehicle passes through the village. Also, they have to remain fixed in the event of a torrential downpour that might wash the clay between the stones.

-the smaller stones are placed in the middle of the road, while the larger ones at the edge, especially in the parts where the road ends. We do this to avoid the destruction of the road by heavy vehicles.

• MET successfully manages to attract PARTNERS/FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS that cover the expenses necessary to implement these types of projects.
• THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY together with the MET team managed to find ways to ensure the SUSTAINABILITY of the project. For us the SUSTAINABILITY of our projects is at the forefront, but we must be honest and recognize that it is a difficult thing to achieve and the one thing that consumes most of our time.

We are proud to say that after an eighteen-year period of using this road, during which the road has been transited by villagers with carts or on foot, by visitors, by tractors with loaded trailers full of hay, by heavy trucks filled with construction materials, that the river stone pavement still looks adequate with the exception of a section where the street meets the Main Road. In this area we haven’t managed to fully collect a spring which represents a problem especially in winter when ice forms on the surface of the pavement.

We hope that soon, the community of Viscri together with the Town Hall of Bunești commune- in whose administration the roads inside the village reside- will find a solution to solve this problem.

To end on a positive note, we acknowledge that the Town Hall of Bunesti commune carried out in 2008 a project for paving the New Street in Viscri. Members of community in Viscri hope that soon funds will also be raised for the paving of the Main Road. The MET Foundation has also implemented river stone paving projects in the villages of Florești, Alma Vii and Mălâncrav.”