FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews recently finished a busy but successful week by resurfacing five streets that otherwise wouldn’t have happened this year if not for the repaving of Southmoor Drive.
“What happens a lot with these types of projects is you have a weather delay or a maintenance issue because of rain,” said Bob McDonald, the town’s transportation director. “We had some thunderstorms, so it pushed other projects, of course, forward. And I had to push this project forward about a week.”
A half-mile segment of Southmoor was recently repaved after being closed for six years because of an erosion risk from Fountain Creek.
By using recycled asphalt in the repaving, town officials saved $320,000 that they used to pay for the five resurfacing projects — two asphalt repaving jobs and three chip-seal jobs.
In the chip-seal process, crews apply a tar-like substance to the pavement and spread small rock chips over it; the materials harden into a new surface that delays the need for a more expensive asphalt repaving.
The asphalt repaving was on several blocks of Fountain Mesa Road, south of the Mesa Ridge Parkway intersection, and on a block of Sneffels Street between Fountain Mesa and Cross Creek Avenue.
Crews performed chip sealing at the south end of Fountain Mesa; along Jimmy Camp Road, near Fountain-Fort Carson High School; and on the southeast end of Marksheffel Road…