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Road Operations

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The Road Operations Division maintains:
- 2446 miles of road.
- 74 bridges.
- 5 satellite stations used in emergency response.

Program areas

Maintenance activities are funded under the following program areas:

  • Roadway/Shoulder Maintenance (includes pothole patching, crack filling, chip sealing, slurry seals, base stabilization, rocking shoulders, grading gravel roads, dust abatement)
  • Drainage (includes catch basin cleaning, manhole and drywell maintenance, culvert cleaning and replacement, ditching, installation of storm systems)
  • Bridge Maintenance (includes painting, flushing/cleaning, scouring control)
  • Deputy Program (includes truck safety inspections, weight control, misc. traffic control activities)
  • Incidental Traffic and Safety Services (includes snow and ice control, street sweeping, litter control, pavement markings, striping, sign installation/maintenance)
  • Roadside Vegetation/Median Maintenance/Swales and Ponds (includes roadside mowing, brush cutting, median maintenance, swale and pond maintenance)
  • CRP (overlays, walkway construction, fish passage projects, traffic calming device construction.

Functional areas

Technical services

  • Pavement management program which helps preserve the roadway network.

Responds to questions regarding:

Landscape Maintenance

  • Maintenance of medians and other landscaped areas within County right-of-way.

ROW and Median Vegetation Maintenance

  • Maintenance and enhancements of all medians within the unincorporated areas of Clark County
  • Responds to sight distance issues
  • Removal of vegetation on overlay and slurry projects.

Specialty Services

  • Traffic control and bridge maintenance.

Responds to questions regarding:

  • When is my road going to be striped
  • When will the buttons be replaced on a certain road
  • When will the signal that has a burned out lamp be replaced
  • When will our bridge get repainted

Bridge limitations (includes load, height and closures)

Rural North County

  • General maintenance response to north County (geographically encompasses County right-of-way (ROW) north of 199th Street west of SR-503, ROW north of 159th Street between SR-503 and 172nd Avenue, and ROW north and south of 99th Street east of 172nd Ave)

  • Chip Seal preservation program

Responds to questions regarding:

  • When we'll be plowing or sanding a road during inclement weather
  • Which roads are plowed and sanded
  • When is a pothole going to be repaired
  • Vegetation maintenance schedule
  • Drainage concerns
  • When is our road going to be dust oiled or graded
  • When will the shoulder be repaired
  • Why is the road chip sealed instead of paved with hot mix

NPDES/Asphalt and Special Projects

  • NPDES activities (street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, swale/pond maintenance)
  • Special project works (Cold mix overlays, other day labor projects)

Responds to questions regarding:

  • When is my street going to be swept
  • When will the swale behind my home be mowed

Urban

  • General maintenance
  • Small capital projects (response to south County (geographically encompasses County right-of-way south of 199th Street west of SR-503, ROW south of 159th Street between SR-503 and 172nd Avenue, and ROW south of 99th Street east of 172nd Avenue)

Responds to questions regarding:

  • When we'll be fixing a pothole
  • How soon we'll be picking up litter
  • When will we be plowing or sanding a street
  • When will the repair on a shoulder be completed
  • How soon will a sight distance problem be remedied
  • Special project status

 

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Clark County Public Works - Operations Division:
Greg Shafer and Charles Masco
, Operations Managers
Street Address: 4700 NE 78th Street, Vancouver, WA 98665
Mailing Address: 4700 NE 78th Street, Vancouver, WA 98665
Main phone: (360) 397-2446 | FAX: (360) 576-0304
TTY: (360) 397-6057
E-mail: pubwks.cservice@clark.wa.gov

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