10th Avenue Street Construction 2019 Project

COMPLETED

Project scope: Mill three inches of existing pavement, asphalt overlay, seal joints
Location: 10th Avenue from Vilas Street to Michigan
Design Contract: 10th Avenue (Vilas Street to Michigan Street)
General Contract: Mcanany Construction in the amount of $478,229.49

Damage to the 10th Avenue Street has been noticeable to residents in 2019. Because of the severity of deteriorating road conditions, the City acted immediately to initiate bonding for this project that goes well above and beyond our 2019 budget.

Background: When the street was built in the 1990s, the aggregate used in the concrete absorbed water. It caused two problems: 1) a reaction between the concrete and some of the aggregate particles that creates a gel in the cracks; and 2) the water gets in the cracks, which freezes and expands and destroys concrete from the joints. In 2013, repairs were done to the worst joints and a thin mill overlay of asphalt was placed on the road. But in the 2018-2019 winter, hard freezes and snowplows stripped out the 2013 repairs.

The new project is based on a similar project that the Kansas Department of Transportation has tried on Interstate 70, where it lasted about six years and is holding up well. For the 2019 10th Avenue repairs, contractors will scrape away 3 inches of the deteriorating asphalt. They will replace it with a higher quality asphalt 3" deep and then saw joints in the asphalt pavement and seal them. 

Project is scheduled to begin in fall 2019. There will be lane closures and reduced traffic.