$534K slurry-seal contract approved for Apache Junction roads
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Slurry seal is a preventive or corrective maintenance surface treatment with a mixture of aggregate, emulsified asphalt, mineral filler, additives and water.
A more than $530,000 slurry-seal project in March is to add a new protective pavement to various Apache Junction streets including in the Grand View Place subdivision.
The Apache Junction City Council voted unanimously Feb. 18 as part of a consent agenda with other items to approve a contract with Cactus Asphalt for $534,048.90, which includes a 10% contingency for unforeseen change orders.
It will be funded in the current fiscal year street sales tax budget as part of the Public Works Division’s fiscal year 2025 capital improvement and street maintenance plan, Public Works Manager Shane Kiesow wrote in a memo to the council.
“The work is expected to last for two weeks in early March 2025. Work would occur during the daytime hours only with limited impacts to vehicular traffic lanes and adjacent side streets and driveways,” he said.
The work involves the slurry seal of portions of Delaware Drive, Southern Avenue, Baseline Avenue, Tomahawk Road and local streets within the Grand View Place subdivision area east of Delaware Drive, south of Apache Trail, west of Ironwood Drive and north of Broadway Avenue, Kiesow said.
The preventive or corrective maintenance surface treatment is a mixture of aggregate, emulsified asphalt, mineral filler, additives and water. The slurry seal improves road surface texture and seals and protects the pavement, according to pinalcountyaz.gov.
Richard H. Dyer can be reached at rdyer@iniusa.org, or on X @rhdyer. To voice your opinion on this story, connect with us at AzOpinions@iniusa.org.
Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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