The Contra Costa County Public Works Department will be applying a chip seal on roads in the following areas:
• Unincorporated Brentwood
• Unincorporated Clayton
• Unincorporated San Ramon
The work is scheduled to begin on Monday, July 17, 2023, through Monday, August 14, 2023, barring unforeseen circumstances.
The work will occur Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m., conditions permitting.
Should this schedule change, residents will be notified accordingly. Drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians may experience minor delays due to this work, but no permanent lane closures are anticipated. The purpose of this surface treatment work is to extend the useful life of the roads, as well as to protect pavements from the damaging effects of water and natural weathering.
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What would it take to get Willow Pass Road paved?
Money in the right pocket.
..and YVR east of San miguel
BIG A,
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Development of the CNWS according to the Concord City Council. We’ll have an extremely long wait on our hands!!!
Lipstick on a pig
Waste of time and money. Just like spray painting the road black so it looks new. The roads around here need a complete overhaul.
The County supervisors need a complete overhaul.
Painting a road does nothing but cost money.
I can’t help but wonder what the kickback is from the paint company.
Don’t know what they are doing to Treat Blvd but they have it torn up pretty good. They have it torn up so deep I was wondering if they were putting pipe in the ground. Seems pretty deep for repaving.
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I believe the work involves replacing the entire street section (down to the base).
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It’s more expensive but necessary then the section is already too thick or severely compromised.
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Well Clayton got the chip seal last year and the company that did it was terrible. So many complaints from a POS process used that didn’t work, but they wouldn’t fix it.
Will it be like our street? A week after the top coat PG&E dug a bunch of holes, did a very bad job of filling them in leaving small holes for the next rain and big bumps in other places.
Death by a thousand cuts and local agencies hate utility cuts right after a pavement rehab project.
Roads fail by water seeping into the base of the roadway section through cracks or trench cuts and then having heavy loads (tires) run over them – they often result in what is called “alligator cracking”.
The problem you noted is an issue for the local/county agency. There is generally a quarterly meeting with utility companies to coordinate road improvements (crack sealing/seal coats/overlays/rehabs) for arterials vs. utility trenching at which time these timing issues should be discussed and coordinated to have the utility work occur prior to the roadway rehab.
Smaller roads are often subject to homeowner utility replacements to the service mains in the street.
If a city reconstructs/rehabs a road there should be:
1) advance notice to utility agencies and residents of proposed roadway work;
2) a moratorium on private and public (EBMUD, Delta Diablo, CCWD, CCCSD, PG&E, etc.) service replacement for at least 5-10 years, unless there is a provable failure within the public’s right of way.
Typically roadway trench replacements are left with a paved “bump” in the short term as the trench backfill consolidates and compacts. Ultimately they are replaced with a final lift of AC once the the trench has compacted. However, who does the work and how well the work is performed (and how the new pavement connects to the existing pavement) goes a long way to how long the road lasts in fair condition.
BIG A,
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Development of the CNWS according to the Concord City Council. We’ll have an extremely long wait on our hands!!!
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