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Public Works outlines road maintenance plan, warns of funding squeeze and points to possible state revenue boost
Summary
County officials described a move toward proactive maintenance and a five-year pavement plan, detailed chip-seal and paving projects including a 12.7-mile chip-seal collaboration, cited material and bridge cost pressures, and referenced pending state legislation that could add revenue if enacted.
Columbia County Public Works presented a road-division update that emphasized shifting from reactive to proactive maintenance, creating a five-year maintenance outlook, and expanding pavement preservation work.
Assistant Public Works and road staff reviewed this year’s in-house paving and contractor work, including patch paving on Bennett Road, Hazen Road, Furlock Park near the high school, Pittsburgh Road and Cater Road, and a chip-seal collaboration that treated…
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