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Pothole
Repair & Paver Patching
Paver Patching on Bethel-Hygiene Road
Foreman:
Jim Jennings
The Paving
Crew uses a
Marathon
“Hot Box” to perform routine pothole repair.
This piece of equipment holds 4 tons of asphalt and uses propane heaters
to keep it hot. In a normal day they
use 2 loads of asphalt (8 tons). This
is manually shoveled and then rolled in place.
The roller provides a great
advantage in this operation because it makes the repairs permanent.
Rarely do they need to return to a pothole that has been repaired with
“hot mix” and rolled.
The
highway department has its own paving equipment that it uses to repair roads
that are deteriorated beyond simple pothole patching, but are not on the annual
paving list. This extends the useful
life of the current pavement 2 to 3 years until it can be included in the
general paving program.
In 2005
the Paving Crew used 3,283 tons of asphalt in the paver patching program.
This enabled them to repair/pave 14.2 lane miles of
Clermont
County
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