Five Fallbrook roads up for resurfacing

The most recent County of San Diego authorization to advertise and award a contract to resurface county roads includes five Fallbrook roads on the list.

The 5-0 Board of Supervisors vote December 13 authorizes the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of a contract to resurface 40.27 miles of county-maintained road. The resurfacing will include parts of Calmin Drive, Dorothea Avenue, Fuerte Street, Green Canyon Road, and Hellers Bend.

The county’s Department of Public Works utilizes a pavement management system to determine which roads are in need of resurfacing. DPW staff members visually assess the degree and type of cracking, surface deformation, and surface defects, and pavement management software is used to validate surface distresses found through field data. The visual and mechanical information is used to

prioritize resurfacing projects.

In June the supervisors had authorized a contract for 19 miles of resurfacing, although that contract also included culvert replacement work and culvert issues led to a delay in the bid process. The work from the most recent authorization will coincide with the work on the roads approved in June for which bids were opened November 30. Work on the roads authorized in the December 13 approval is expected to begin in February 2007 and be completed in two to three months.

The new contract also accounts for the return of Proposition 42 revenue from the state. In June 2002 the state’s voters passed Proposition 42, which dedicated the sales tax on gasoline to roads, but a provision which allows the suspension of Proposition 42 payments to local governments in the case of a fiscal emergency was invoked and the state never provided Proposition 42 funding for Fiscal Years 2003-04 and 2004-05. The county had budgeted $4,841,475 for the contract authorized December 13, and the approval that day also appropriated $6,658,525 of previously-unbudgeted Proposition 42 revenue for the work. The $11,500,000 total is expected to cover contingencies as well as the planned cost of the work.

Plans and specifications for the resurfacing work are complete, and the utility companies have been notified so that they can schedule trenching work on the listed roadway segments before the resurfacing begins.

The resurfacing on Calmin Road will cover 0.48 miles from Green Canyon Road to the end of the county-maintained road and will be 20 feet in width. The work on Dorothea Avenue will cover 0.22 miles from the road’s beginning to Fuerte Street and will have a width of 20 feet. The Fuerte Street resurfacing will have a width of 24 feet and will cover 0.33 miles from the road’s beginning to Calmin Drive. Green Canyon Road will see 1.63 miles resurfaced covering the segment between Reche Road and Winter Haven Road and ranging in width from 26 to 38 feet. The repaving of Hellers Bend will entail 0.98 miles between Mission Road and South Mission Road and will have a resurfacing width of 30 feet.