Paving, Patching and Potholes City crews have been taking advantage of the mild weather this past week to patch water line cuts and fill potholes throughout the city, using our new 7 tonne asphalt recycler in addition to our older 3 tonne machine. Over the week, crews were able to complete pavement repairs to a large cut on Griffin Drive, one on Georgetown Road, and one on Als Hill along OConnell Drive. They have also prepped additional sites for pavement. In spite of the number of repairs that were carried out over the summer and fall, with over 200 water line breaks to repair, we still have somewhere around 60 cuts to repair. With an average of 5-12 new water line breaks each week, we are not out of the woods yet, but we are making some headway. Normally, crews will dig out the areas to be repaired while the asphalt is being mixed, and then go back to the first area to do the patch and so on. Over this past week, crews were able to do 5 patches of various sizes, which is a very good week. Our water and sewer crews have also completed 5 waterline repairs and have installed 2 new services in the past week, including a major repair on Main Street where our workers used our new trench box which provides crews with a much higher degree of safety from cave ins when working in trenches. In addition to repairing the water line cuts, we have a dedicated pothole crew going steady with a list of potholes that gets updated daily. With temperatures consistently rising above and falling below the freezing mark, this will be an ongoing issue. We also have a dedicated water and sewer crew topping up all the cuts that have not yet been repaired with gravel and ensuring that there is adequate signage to warn drivers of the bump ahead. The costs of reinstating the pavement once the water line repairs are complete will cost the City about $ 500 000 this year compared to about $425 000 in 2013. The over 200 waterline repairs will cost approximately $875 000 this year compared to just over $659 000 to repair the 169 breaks last year. In total, the city will spend about $1.4 Million this year compared to $1,082,000 in 2013 to complete repairs to waterline breaks and reinstate the pavement. Of note, as of yesterday, all our city workers are to be commended for having successfully achieved 114 days without a loss time incident. Keep up the great work!
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:04:02 +0000
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