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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:
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Types of application to be used overlay, base stabilization, slurry seal projects)
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Definitions of the different types of road surface treatments
- 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
