Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Hardy and Harper Inc. has been given the Riverside County contract to resurface approximately 1.7 miles of Pala Road in Temecula’s Wolf Valley area.
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0, Dec. 15, to approve an addendum to the bid package and award Hardy and Harper a $1,206,000 contract, which matches the Lake Forest company’s bid. The action also approved a total project budget of $1,725,000.
The work will resurface Pala Road from approximately 105 feet south of Pechanga Road to the San Diego County line. Some portions of Pala Road are extremely deteriorated, and for those segments the road will be completely excavated before being reconstructed to the existing grade with hot mix asphalt and a Class 2 aggregate base. The work for less deteriorated portions of the road will remove the existing asphalt concrete pavement and overlay it with hot mix asphalt. The segment of Pala Road which will be resurfaced ranges in width from 24 to 34 feet.
The road improvement project will also include placement of an asphalt concrete dike, construction of pavement safety edge and shoulder backing, replacement of an existing culvert, construction of asphalt concrete drains, guardrail installation, traffic striping, thermoplastic pavement markings, installation of traffic signs and other associated work.
A 5-0 board of supervisors’ vote, Sept. 22, approved the plans and specifications for the construction, authorized the project for bid, and found the resurfacing categorically exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review. That action also set a bid deadline of 2 p.m. Oct. 14. An Oct. 8 addendum addressed the aggregate base.
Five bids were received by the deadline. The Hardy and Harper bid was the lowest with Onyx Paving Company of Anaheim providing the second-lowest bid at $1,369,000. The engineer's estimate for the construction contract was $1,372,169.
The budget of $1,725,000 also includes surveying, engineering, and inspection costs along with the previously-expended environmental and design work. A contingency amount of $120,600 is also part of the budget. Revenue from what is known as the Road Repair and Accountability Act, which increased the gas tax by 12 cents a gallon effective November 2017 and increased vehicle registration fees between $25 and $175 based on vehicle value effective spring 2018, will fund the project cost.
The construction is expected to begin in early 2021. The work will be phased so that the road can be kept open during construction as much as possible. The resurfacing is expected to be completed approximately two months after the start of construction.
Joe Naiman can be reached by email at [email protected].
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