If you are a civil engineer with an archeological bent, you must have been intrigued by what you saw in the trench cut in the RSF village for the new Delicias street divider as well as holes made for sewer or utility cuts in the Covenant. What these show is the history of RSF road construction. In the 1920s the streets were dusty dirt. Eventually about an inch of gravel was put down and then for years, layer after layer of hot top, now about nine inches deep. To this day, there is no base of decomposed granite under the hot top. Cost wise, it is now impossible to dig out these old streets. Today we build roads as in Hacienda Santa Fe, with proper drainage systems, thirteen to seventeen of decomposed granite base overlaid with 4.5 to 5.5 inches of hot top; stronger and less maintenance.