County completes first phase of paved-road assessment; unveils digital tools and preventive-maintenance options
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Summary
Staff presented a countywide pavement-condition assessment covering 471.4 miles (2,123 segments) and described new video-logging and predictor tools to support preventive maintenance; commissioners discussed trade-offs among crack sealing, epoxy treatments and full resurfacing and asked for links to the data and tools.
Spalding County staff presented the results of a pavement-condition inventory and the first phase of a road-assessment project, showing a countywide data set for paved roads, video-logging of segments and a predictor tool that will help prioritize preventive maintenance and resurfacing projects.
Why it matters: for the first time the county will have segment-level pavement-condition-index (PCI) scores by intersection-to-intersection segments, video documentation and modeling tools to test how different maintenance budgets and treatments would affect the network over time. Staff said the inventory covered about 471.4 miles and 2,123 segments and cost approximately $175,000.
Details: TJ (road staff) and Director Emberger described how the PCI (0 100 scale) identifies surface distress types and how targeted preventive treatments can extend pavement life at lower cost than full resurfacing. Staff presented example unit costs used for planning: crack sealing at roughly $16,000 per mile (adds 5 7 years), epoxy resurfacing around $80,000 per mile, and full resurfacing at the packet estimate of about $330,000 per mile. Staff also described reusing millings for pothole/mastic repairs, a mastic process the county has used with reported long-term hold.
Tools and next steps: the county has a video-logger product that creates footage and condition records for each segment and will activate a Brightly/Asset Essentials "predictor" tool to simulate spending scenarios (for example, how to allocate $100,000 in crack sealing) and to visualize effects by district. Staff said they will provide commissioners with links to the GIS lists, video segments and the PCI data and use the tools to support future SPLOST/TSPLOST and annual budgeting decisions.
Board direction: commissioners asked staff to circulate the data links, confirm sidewalk/curb/sign inventories will be added and return with options that weigh preventive maintenance versus full-depth reclamation for high-priority corridors. No resurfacing contract was approved at the workshop; the assessment data will inform future procurement and budgeting.
