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After resident objections, Lake County pauses Cobb pavement work; board directs staff to prepare asphalt change order
Summary
County staff paused a Cobb pavement project after residents and county road crews objected to planned double chip seal over pulverized base. Interim Public Works Director recommended adding hot‑mix asphalt on several steep roads; board directed staff to prepare a change order and identify funding.
Lake County officials paused construction on a section of the 2024 Cobb Area Pavement Rehabilitation Project after questions from residents and county maintenance staff about plans to use double chip seal over pulverized road bases on steep, high‑use local roads.
Interim Public Works Director Lars Ewing told the Board of Supervisors on July 29 that the project — originally designed in 2024, estimated at about $8.9 million and awarded to Argonaut Constructors — included both full asphalt resurfacing on some routes and double chip seal on lower‑priority sections. The scope covers roughly 16 miles of Cobb‑area roads. "The contractor is building the project per plan," Ewing said, but he and road maintenance personnel had concerns about the durability of double chip seal in Cobb's steep, snowy and high‑use environment.
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