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County outlines $6.78 million plan to bring 9.47 miles of unmaintained roadways up to standard
Summary
Public works staff told the Board of County Commissioners that surveying and drainage upgrades are prerequisites to maintaining 9.47 miles of unmaintained rights-of-way; initial work to bring those miles to a maintainable standard is estimated at $6,779,285.38, with an additional estimated annual grading cost of $111,150.72.
Danny Ullie, assistant public works director for Indian River County, told commissioners on Dec. 9 that staff has catalogued the county’s maintained assets and identified a subset of unmaintained rights-of-way that residents currently use as roads.
Ullie said the county maintains roughly 405 miles of paved roads, 246 miles of dirt roads and 129 miles of sidewalks, plus 1,383 drainage and curb structures. He said 9.47 miles of unmaintained rights-of-way identified in staff inventories would require substantial work — survey, drainage swales,…
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