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County engineering pushes chip-seal pilot and asks for flexible CIP to speed road repairs
Summary
Engineering staff outlined a pilot using millings and chip-seal techniques to lower paving costs on dirt and low-volume roads and asked the board whether to combine resurfacing/milling/dirt paving into one flexible road-improvement line item to allow mid-year reallocations.
Richard Smith, county engineering, described a pilot approach that uses millings from paved-road resurfacing to create an all-weather surface on select dirt roads. Smith said an early pilot came in at roughly a 60 percent cost savings versus typical paving, and that, if successful, the method could reduce per-mile costs from about $1 million to well under $500,000 for some projects.
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