Brawley council reviews street assessment, outlines multi‑year maintenance approach

The Brawley City Council on Jan. 21 received a citywide pavement assessment and preliminary multi‑year plan that identifies maintenance and rehabilitation needs across roughly 21 miles of streets and outlines funding and phasing options.

Consultant Jack Holt, who led the assessment presented at the council's meeting, said the review divided street sections into routine maintenance and progressively worse rehabilitation categories and attached unit costs for each treatment. "In any street system you want to stress your maintenance sections and keep those maintenance sections because it's about 10 to 1 cost between a maintenance section and a rehabilitation section," Holt told the council, explaining why earlier and regular upkeep is less expensive than delaying work until pavements fail.

The report covered about 21 miles in the east side study area. It estimated approximately 3.65 miles in "best" condition (work: SS‑1h oil coat and limited crack sealing), about 11.2 miles in moderate condition that would need crack sealing plus…