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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1977
ollege Station street crew
patches more than chuckholes
By SUSIE TURNER
Bumpity bumpily bumpily
iVHOMP rattle-rattle. The latest
disco hit? No, it’s your car or bike
Percenlj?, lifting a chuck hole in the streets of
College Station.
At last count, College Station has
87 miles of street. More than 93
"Rient com percent are paved. Those 87 miles
by the Til are divided into 295 streets and
seven state highways. This network
of pavement (except for the on-
campus streets and the state high
ways) is maintained by a nine-man
e sponsor) crew and a foreman under the direc
tion of George Ford, Director of
Public Works at College Station
Ford describes the way the street
ipartment works as “catch as catch
can. Part of the problem, he say s,
that quite often the street crew is
doing something other than what it
was hired to do. For example, when
the regular garbage collectors for
the city don't show up for work, the
street crew has to help collect trash.
Getting trash picked up is a more
pressing problem than making a
street smoother so trash gets prior
ity over chuckholes, Ford said.
When the crew does get to repair
streets, it uses a method called
patching. This means filling up
chuckholes or large cracks. It takes
once a complaint is made.
The crew works with two types of
patches: hot and cold. Hot patches
are stronger, more permanent and
can be vised over larger areas. The
main problem is that hot patches
can only he used as long as they' stay
hot — around 300 degrees
Fahrenheit. If the mixture cools, it
hardens and is no good.
A cold patch is simply a gravel-
type mineral and oil mixture that is
compacted into the hole or crack. It
is temporary and the first rain could
wasli it away. It is used because it is
easy to store and can be used in the
winter when hot patches are im
practical. Also, it is easier to use in
emergencies until the crew can get
around to making a hot patch.
Patches only treat the symptoms,
they don t cure the real problem.
The ideal situation would be to have
the streets in such a good condition
that patching wouldn t be necessary
Ford said.
“We would like to enter into pre
ventative maintenance. Ford
added. “Patching is penny-wise and
pound-poor. We want to do the
whole street.
Resurfacing is a preventative
maintenance measure. To resurface
a street, the crew smooths out the
road with hot mix patches. They
then put down an oily-type tack coat
to seal out water. Next, the road is
covered with a seal coat. This takes
care of the immediate problem and
helps prevent future problems.
“The important factor is to seal
the cracks,” Ford said. “If you get
the moisture out, you’ve got the
problem whipped.”
Plans to resurface streets are
made by the College Station City
Council in the early spring. But
funds don’t become available until
after July of that year. Ford said.
Since resurfacing shovdd be done in
the late spring or early summer,
plans have to postponed an entire
year.
“As the money becomes avail
able, we ll follow up,” Ford said.
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