City Public Works tries new (to it) surfacing technique to fix street
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EMPLOYEES of a county subcontracter remove loose gravel from 29th Avenue during a chip seal repair of the street last Friday, Aug. 21.
A serpentine pile of gravel down the center of 29th Avenue last week represented what could be a new approach to fixing streets in Sweet Home: chip sealing.
Thursday morning, Aug. 20, a street sweeper rolled slowly down 29th, sucking up the loose crushed rock after an application of layers of quarter- and eighth-inch gravel pressed into asphalt emulsion that had been spread on the street.
It's the first complete resurfacing of a street in "a few" years in Sweet Home, city Public Works Operations Manager Dominic Valloni said.
Although the county and state frequently use chip sealing on ro...
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