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Major street maintenance begins
A milling machine tears out the old asphalt on Palisades Boulevard near Avenue of the Fountains.
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Bob Burns, Times Reporter
The town has begun the first phase of its new pavement management program and the ride is already getting smoother in some parts of Fountain Hills.
Nesbitt Contracting was in town last week milling out old, deteriorating asphalt and replacing it with a new surface.
Large areas of Palisades Boulevard were repaired between Saguaro and Golden Eagle Boulevards. Work also was done on Fountain Hills Boulevard.
Deteriorating sections on residential streets that fall within the town’s maintenance Section 6 were also milled out and replaced with new asphalt.
The work done by Nesbitt was completed under an agreement that cost the town $155,000.
The Town Council also recently approved street maintenance agreements with Cactus Asphalt for $25,000 to piggyback on a contract the company has with ADOT for crack sealing; Southwest Slurry for up to $570,000 on its agreement with the City of Scottsdale for slurry seal; and Pavement Marking Inc. for striping and other pavement marking for $17,750.
Crack sealing is to begin within the next couple of weeks, and the slurry seal project will begin around May 1, according to Town Manager Ken Buchanan.
When the council approved a new pavement management program in January, it designated $9.7 million over an eight-year period for the program.
At the request of Buchanan the pavement management plan included an allocation of $867,000 to be used during the current fiscal year.
Since that money was not budgeted, the town had to make immediate cuts, including personnel, to cover the new priority.
The largest street project on the horizon is the reconstruction of Saguaro Boulevard. That is contingent on voters approving an $8.2 million bond question on the November 2013 ballot.
