For example, Montgomery County is striving to achieve road conditions where 95 percent are in fair or better condition. But at this point, it’s about at 85 percent, said Mike Dorn, assistant operations engineer for the engineers office.
“We are behind,” Dorn said. “The county has averaged less than 15 miles of resurfacing in the past six years. We should be averaging 25 miles per year to keep our pavements in “fair” or better condition.”
Kettering, after finishing two major, lengthy street jobs on Dorothy Lane and Wilmington Pike, is caught up for the most part, said City Engineer Steve Bergstresser.
“I would say that we are in good shape with the overall condition of the city’s roadways,” he said. “Obviously if we had unlimited resources we could do a lot more, but we need to approach our annual and five-year capital improvement program in a fiscally responsible way.”
Woodman Drive, between East Dorothy Lane and Rainbow Drive, is prompting some concerns, he said. That section is scheduled for repair in 2014.
By comparison, Dayton is struggling and falling behind. Steve Finke, assistant public works director, said that despite a program this year of work on 55 miles of roadway at a cost of $3.1 million, the city really needs to get 70 to 80 miles paved each year to keep up.
“It is difficult to keep up due to a lack of funding. There are not too many outside sources of funding for asphalt resurfacing projects,” he said. “We are behind. We need to do about 70-80 lanes miles a year to maintain a schedule of 18 years for thoroughfares and 25 years for residential streets.”
Other responses to the survey:
•Beavercreek: Resurfacing and reconstructing 8.54 miles this year, less than each of the last four to five years, at cost of $3.2 million. Beavercreek is behind. Beavercreek maintains approximately 252 miles. With current budget and the cost of materials, the city can pave between six to eight miles of streets per year. This makes the city’s paving cycle length between 32-42 years, which is almost double the typical lifespan for asphalt pavement.
•Bellbrook:In 2013, the city is milling and resurfacing about 1.5 miles of residential roads at a cost of approximately $150,000.
•Centerville: Resurfacing 8.4 miles at a cost of $1.5 million.For 2013, largest paving project is the Spring Valley Road project, which started last year. .
•Clayton: Resurfacing 10 miles at a cost not to exceed $499,898.
•Dayton: Resurfacing 55 miles, about the same as 2012 but much more than previous years, for about $3.1 million. not including an additional $800,000 that will be done with the ODOT paving on South Main, Woodman, and East First Street. City says it is difficult to keep up due to a lack of funding.
•Fairborn: Repaired and resurfaced 17 local roadway sections throughout the city for a total of 3.82 miles. In addition, Dayton-Yellow Springs Road, from Beaver Valley Road to Ironwood Drive, was reconstructed and resurfaced, being another 0.45 miles. Total cost of these 2013 paving projects is $2.1 million. .
•Greene County: Paving 15 miles with hot mix asphalt, and chip sealing 20.5 miles.Total cost is around $1.5 million. Program is on schedule.
•Huber Heights: Resurfacing and reconstructing 5.9 miles, which is comparable to each of the last four to five years. This year performing $920,000 in repaving and a reconstruction project at Old Troy Pike for $850,000.
•Kettering: Resurfacing 10 miles, down somewhat from the past few years, since city just recently completed several major resurfacing and reconstruction projects on Dorothy Lane and Wilmington Pike between 2009 and earlier this year. The number of miles that we’ve been completing with our residential resurfacing program has held steady over the same time period, at roughly eight miles per year on average.
•Miami County: Repaving 10.5 miles of roadway in 2013 at total cost of $707,000. It is close to the average over the last five years. County should be paving around 20 miles per year.
•Miami Twp.: Repaving 3.9 miles.The total cost of resurfacing is roughly $350,000. The total cost of reconstruction is $1.5 million. The township is caught up on the resurfacing schedule. The two largest projects are the ODOT improvements to Ohio 741 south of the Ohio 725 intersection and the township’s Wood Road Improvements project.
•Montgomery County: Repaving 18.8 miles, not including roadway reconstruction projects such as Yankee Street. Total county paving contract is for approximately $2.6 million. The county has averaged less than 15 miles of resurfacing in the past six years, and should be averaging 25 miles per year to keep pavements in “fair” or better condition.
•Riverside: Repaved 7.4 miles. Total costs of all city projects $4.7 million. Pavement conditions on major thoroughfares and residential streets need constant attention due to failed infrastructure, i.e. storm water, water main failures, pot holes.
•Springboro: Resurfaced three miles, about the same when compared to the past four years. Total costs are $2.4 million. The city has been on a paving schedule for many years and is caught up.
•Troy: The amount of repaving is slightly larger in 2013 due to work that was tied to the Adams Street Bridge and paving Water and Staunton because of detour routes. Not keeping up with paving needed.
•Vandalia: Resurfaced/repaved/reconstructed about 3.5 miles, about the average. Total cost was $340,000.
•Warren County: Resurfaced 13.1 miles of county roads for $1.6 million and 6.6 miles of township roads $561,425. The total miles paved for 2013 is around the average.
•West Carrollton: Resurfacing 1.73 miles at cost of $255,242.
•Xenia: Resurfacing 4.1 miles. Costs are $659,211 for actual paving and $120,950 for stormwater catch basin replacements for a total of $780,161. Considering that there was no street program until 2011, Xenia is far behind but starting to catch up.
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