Friday, August 30, 2013

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Catching up on road repairs

As seen this week, Coteau Street West is
closed from Eighth Avenue Southwest to Ninth
Avenue Southwest for sewer and water repairs.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy
By Lisa Goudy


If everything goes as planned, this year’s road repair should be done in November.

“As long as October and November are milder … with no snow, we should be able to achieve almost our target and we got a late start,” said Duane Grado, public works manager. “We got more snow than we ever saw, but if Mother Nature works with us we should be 80, 90 per cent accomplished. We won’t get 100 per cent. We know that.”

He said the city has a number of ongoing road repair projects.

“We’re rehabilitating entire streets and then coming through with a layer of brand new asphalt,” said Grado. “Those projects we call the road rehabilitation under the capital plan.”

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