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City outlines road-preservation plan and reconstruction costs for aging streets
Summary
Bountiful Streets Director Charles Benson told Mayor Kendalyn Harris the city maintains about 162 miles of centerline road, plans roughly 14 miles of preservation this year using slurry seals, and prefers rehabilitation over costly reconstruction that can run about $500,000 per half-mile.
Mayor Kendalyn Harris spoke with Streets Department Director Charles Benson about how Bountiful maintains its streets and the tradeoffs between preservation, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Bountiful City has about 162 miles of centerline road, and the streets department inspects each road annually to decide whether it needs preservation, rehabilitation or full reconstruction, Benson said.
Keeping moisture out of pavement is the city’s top priority. “That’s kind of the number one enemy of a road. It’ll make it soft and do potholes and start alligatoring when that moisture gets down into the road and into the base of the material,” said Charles Benson, Streets Department Director. To limit water infiltration, Benson said the city plans about 14 miles of preservation work this year…
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