Our Street Division’s primary goal of is to ensure that all streets
within the City of Lapeer are maintained in a
manner that is safe for vehicular traffic 24
hours a day, 7 days a week.
Staffing :: Street Mileage :: Pavement Maintenance
Other
Maintenance Services :: Report a Problem
Staffing
Five full-time employees, one supervisor and two part-time employees
who work April through November currently staff
our Street Division.
Top Street Mileage
We maintain the following
mileage within the City of Lapeer:
- State Trunkline
Mileage = 2.031 Miles
- Major Street Mileage
= 17.313 Miles
- (3) Local Street Mileage
= 19.585 Miles
- Total: 38.929 Miles
Top Pavement Maintenance
Pavement maintenance techniques
consist of several different types of applications
that
are used
for routine maintenance of a roadway surface.
- Slurry Seal is a surface
application applied to an asphalt roadway and
is used primarily to extend the life of
an
existing bituminous surface until a permanent
repair or
reconstruction can be accomplished.
- Crack Sealing
is used to fill cracks that develop in
an asphalt surface with a melted emulsion
material and prevents surface water from
entering the subbase and weakening the roadway.
- Cold Patching
is a temporary repair to a spot weakness
in an asphalt or concrete surface of
a roadway until a permanent repair can
be made.
- Sweeping is a surface
maintenance operation used to keep the street
surfaces clean
and clear
of debris during the months of April through
November.
Top Other Maintenance Services
Annually, additional maintenance
services consist of:
- Updating traffic counts
- Conducting traffic studies
- Contracting pavement
marking
- Repairing, replacing
and installing new signage
- Retaining traffic signals
- Winter maintenance
Retaining traffic signals
We currently maintain and operate 10 signalized
intersections. Since 2000, we have aggressively
upgraded and replaced outdated traffic controllers
and signals owned and operated by the City.
During this time, three new signals were installed
and six intersections have been upgraded with
the remainder of the upgrades to be completed
this year.
Winter maintenance
Winter maintenance is a large budgetary expense
and responsibility. After an average winter
storm with snow accumulating four or more inches,
a plow truck will travel more than two hundred
miles to blade the city streets. Yearly salt
usage for the City of Lapeer averages 1,000
tons.
Top Report a Problem
Please call (810) 664-4711
or email preid@ci.lapeer.mi.us to report a
problem
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