NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council approved the 2024 Residential Street Maintenance project bid at their meeting on Tuesday.
The area of the project is the portion of the city east of K-61 highway for 2024.
"There's an eight year cycle," said Brad Shores with JEO Consulting, who is doing the city's engineering work for this project. "Each color represents one year in that cycle. Every residential street will be touched every eight years. This has been going on for a while, so we're kind of on the east side of Hutch with this program. I can say, compared to what other communities are doing, I think Hutchinson is doing some really good work by doing this, by at least hitting all the streets every eight years, as there are many communities that are never touching their streets."
The City contracts for both Crack Seal and Chip Seal as part of the yearly maintenance.
Crack Seal: The first and most economical line of defense for pavement preservation is sealing the cracks to help prevent water from getting into the street. Crack sealing involves cleaning out and placing a hot applied asphalt-based sealer in the cracks.
Chip Seal: This involves spraying a thin film of heated asphalt emulsion on the road surface, followed by the placement of small aggregate (chips). The chips are then compacted into the asphalt layer and excess chips are swept from the surface over the next few days.
The council approved the low bid of Circle C Paving and Construction in the amount of $1,479,940.00.
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