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The service is responsible for the planning, design, and project management of the City's annual Street Rehabilitation Program; and coordinating contracted contracted construction efforts with the City's maintenance efforts in order to provide the best overall life cycle maintenance for the City's streets and sidewalks. Duties include condition rating of the streets, updating of the City's Pavement Management System database, developing long-range rehabilitation plans, construction management of the contracted portions of the program, and coordinating work with other divisions and departments. The contracted portion of the annual Street Rehab Program includes concrete repair of broken sidewalks and curbs exhibiting drainage and safety issues, preventative maintenance treatments, pavement overlays and reconstruction.
Preventative maintenance surface treatments include cracksealing and chip sealing. Two of the City's rehab strategies include the use of pavement overlays and reconstruction.
This program varies from other Public Works Division capital projects in that the scope of the program is citywide with the overall rehab needs of the streets system being rated and prioritized on an annual basis. The nature of the work is ongoing with the extent of work accomplished in one-year based on the budget of that year. The particular needs and the attempt to coordinate with other capital projects.
As in the past, the various street rehab contracts were utilized to perform work for other divisions and departments and to perform construction tasks for other projects within the division such as Transportation System Management (TSM).
Reconstruction
When a roadway has deteriorated beyond the point where an overlay would provide benefit, total reconstruction of a street is considered. Reconstruction involves the removal of all-existing pavements and replacement with all new materials. This process is expensive and the goal of preventative maintenance is to delay or avoid reconstruction.
Public Works & Natural Resources
Updated February 9, 2010