Tumwater City Council okayed plans for pavement repairs on Crosby Boulevard and Israel Road.
As part of the council’s consent agenda on Tuesday, September 3, the council authorized the city’s transportation and engineering director to expand Miles Construction's contract to include the new repairs as part of the city’s 2023 pavement maintenance project.
Engineering Services Manager Bill Lindauer told the Public Works Committee at an August meeting that the initial contract was for $3,857,857, but the actual funds spent are already $4,171,958.
The project is mostly complete, but with the planned repairs on Crosby Boulevard and Israel Road, the contractor would need an additional $240,000. The new repairs would raise the contract amount to $4,411,958, a total increase of 15% from the original contract.
The transportation director has the authority to increase such contracts by no more than 10%, so the council had to authorize the increase.
The Israel Road project is a grind and overlay project from the I-5 bridge to Linderson Way, while the portion of Crosby Boulevard getting repaired is the northbound lanes from Somerset Hill Drive to Fortner Drive.
In Crosby Boulevard, Lindauer previously said that after the road's overlay was completed, they found water infiltrating from underneath the road due to drainage issues.
The manager suspected that the repair operations disturbed underground soils, which caused water to seep into the asphalt.
The fix for the issue, which would cost around $95,000, is to have the pavement removed and repaved and the road's subgrade layer repaired as well.
The planned repair for Israel Road is outside of the scope of the 2023 maintenance project, but Lindauser said it made sense to repair the road now instead of waiting for the 2025 pavement maintenance project.
The road is already rutting, which is causing it to degrade at a faster rate. It would need a full-width asphalt overlay, which would cost around $145,000.
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