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Greenville County committee approves road paving list after presentation on falling pavement scores
Summary
The Road Infrastructure and Public Works Committee approved a county road paving list after a presentation showing average pavement condition fell from 65 in 2020 to 61 in 2024 and that 13% of roads are in backlog (PCI ≤ 40). The list will move to full county council.
Greenville County’s Road Infrastructure and Public Works Committee approved a road paving list at its meeting after an engineering presentation that showed county pavement conditions declined between 2020 and 2024 and that material and labor costs for paving have risen sharply.
Seth Kaiser, the county’s paving engineer in the Engineering and Maintenance Division, told the committee the county uses a four-year survey and a pavement-condition index (PCI) that scores roads from 0 (worst) to 100. “In 2020, the average condition was 65. The average was 61 in 2024,” Kaiser said, and he added that 13% of the county’s roads have a PCI of 40 or below — the department’s definition of backlog.
Kaiser outlined the county’s process: an external consultant evaluates pavements, staff combine individual road PCIs into district averages, staff group work into…
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