It's nearly a million dollars, but it saves much more than that in future road replacement costs and keeps paved roads in both the city and county in good shape the meantime. Intermountain Slurry won the bid for a joint city-county project to do a chip seal on asphalt streets scheduled for surface treatment this year.
The City of Winnemucca and Humboldt County have put their projects together for a number of years as a joint project allows the company to mobilize just once and results in a lower overall bid price.
Three companies submitted bids, Sierra Nevada Construction at $1,158,419.42, Valley Slurry at $1,142,022.95, and the low bidder, Intermountain Slurry at $986,575.28.
The county portion of the project will include the McDermitt area, two roads in Orovada and Bottle Creek Road. Humboldt County Road Foreman Ben Garrett said doing these surface seal projects extends asphalt life in the county by an average of eight years.
City streets receive the special surface treatment on a rotating basis depending on volume. High-volume collector streets have to be done about every four years and lower-volume residential streets can be kept in good shape with surface treatment only about every eight years. Keeping up the asphalt maintenance on paved roads in city and county saves millions of dollars in repaving costs.
Inside the city limits, the slurry seal will be done on all of the streets in the Water Canyon Estates area, the roads near the high school between Great Basin Drive and Stewart Street and between Kluncy Canyon Road and Palisade. In addition, several collector streets are scheduled, including Schreiner Drive, Ballard Lane, Parkview Street, Hansen Street, West Fourth street, and National Avenue. Both City Manager/Engineer Steve West and Garrett said they felt the bid price was a good one - and less than they'd expected.
Intermountain Slurry did the surface treatment projects for city and county last year as well, and problems with portions of the project have kept back final payments until both government entities are fully satisfied with the job done. The company promised this years' projects will be problem-free. The project timeline hasn't been formally scheduled yet, but will likely be toward the end of the summer.
Contact Joyce Sheen at j.sheen@winnemuccapublishing.net.
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