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Contractor: Greenwood patching nearly complete; micro‑surfacing postponed to spring over weather, aggregate concerns
Summary
Payment Management reported most asphalt patching, concrete and crack‑sealing work is finished and provided detailed quantities; micro‑surfacing will be delayed until spring because cold weather and use of slag aggregate may cause premature surface issues.
Mike Dinner, a representative of Payment Management, told the Greenwood City Council that crews have finished most of the 2025 pavement project but will delay micro‑surfacing until spring because of temperature and aggregate concerns. "As of this afternoon, all the asphalt patching is complete," he said, and added that the concrete work and most crack‑sealing are finished.
Payment Management gave detailed counts of the work completed to date: 526 square yards of fold‑out repairs, roughly 3,265 square yards of 2‑inch patch, and about 8,400 pounds of crack seal and mastic combined. Dinner said the team completed 1,400 square yards in 57 locations at one site after changing the patch layout to reduce patch size and improve results.
Council members asked how those repairs will hold through winter. Dinner said the mastic includes aggregate and should hold up to snowplows, but acknowledged there is "a potential that there could be a little bit more feathers" on some repairs. He recommended finishing crack sealing and returning in the spring for micro‑surfacing when temperatures are more reliable.
A central technical concern was the choice of aggregate. Dinner said limestone is finer and more absorptive while slag is coarser and denser; with cooler temperatures and heavy turning by trash trucks, slag could lead to increased noise or "rattling." "We saw potential for rattling with cooler temperatures," he said, and the team decided not to risk installing slag late in the season.
City staff and the contractor also discussed operational steps before micro‑surfacing, including sweeping roads to remove excess aggregate and completing outstanding crack sealing on specific streets. Contractor staff said they will notify residents before the final sealing and return next week to finish a remaining crack‑sealing run.
The council did not take formal action on the micro‑surfacing at the meeting; the presentation closed with an agreement to resume finish work as weather allows and reconvene planning for the spring micro‑surfacing.
The contractor and staff provided the timeline for remaining work and a plan to return when temperature and surface conditions are appropriate.
