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Road sealing project underway in Palmdale

by The AV Times Staff • October 13, 2014

road workPALMDALE – The City of Palmdale has begun work on a road sealing project that will cover approximately 3,348,300 square feet of pavement – or roughly 5 percent of the residential network – throughout the City. View a map of the affected areas here.

The sealing project will deploy a pavement preservation method known as Asphalt Rubber Aggregate Membrane (ARAM) Cape Sealing within the City’s residential network now through Nov. 20.

“People may notice an odor that smells like ‘burnt rubber” which you might smell at a race track,” said Palmdale Associate Civil Engineer/Project Manager Mike Livingston. “It usually happens in the morning when the contractor begins to blend the recycled crumb rubber tires and tennis balls to 350 degrees, and then adds asphalt paving oil together to make the emulsion that seals and binds the aggregate rock to the street’s surface.”

“This pavement preservation procedure ensures that the streets will maintain performance utilizing the existing pavement asset an additional 12 to 15 years before the area will need to be revisited,” said Livingston.  “Conventional overlay practices average $3.50 a square foot. This method of preservation costs $1.40 per square foot which allows the City to cover almost twice as many roads for the same money.”

According to AB 939, there is a requirement to divert 50 percent of daily waste from going into landfills.

“The ARHM mix design utilizes 15 percent crumb rubber from scrap tires,” said Livingston. “This project will divert approximately 6,800 scrap tires from the landfill though the use of this material.”

The City of Palmdale is responsible for maintaining 91,868,510 square feet of pavement within its jurisdiction. There are 504 miles of maintained streets within the network.

The arterial and collector network consists of 155.1 miles and 31,819,944 square feet of pavement.  The residential network consists of 349.4 miles and 60,048,507 square feet of pavement.

For more information about this project, contact Public Works at 661-267-5300.

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[Information via press release from the City of Palmdale.]

Filed Under: Palmdale

6 comments for "Road sealing project underway in Palmdale"

  1. dumbandblind says

    October 15, 2014 at 12:15 am

    If roads were made of concrete….

  2. anniam says

    October 14, 2014 at 10:38 am

    I’m so frustrated after looking at map, once again 35th St. East/South of S is being looked over. 35th E. is a main hub to get to the school, etc. and is FAR worse than all the little streets being paved right now.

    • Eric says

      October 14, 2014 at 11:50 am

      This is aimed at residential areas, not main thoroughfares. They are trying to avoid having to replace these roads so soon; they’ll likely address the bigger streets with more serious patching.

      As far as 35th being a main hub, I’d have to disagree. Both 30th and 40th extend much farther North/South, and provide easier access to Pearblossom/138 & Lancaster. 35th runs straight into that golf course, and is majority residential (if not entirely?).

      • anniam says

        October 14, 2014 at 4:33 pm

        It’s a secondary main street, it’s one of our busier/busiest. streets because in order to get to the smaller streets, you’ll need to take 35th. You are correct that 40th does extend much further, I don’t believe 30th does because the elementary school and railroad cuts it off. 35th is far more messed up between Ave. S and Fairfield than the residential streets because of the traffic, I think it’s far more important to keep it fixed up.

  3. h says

    October 13, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    Please re pave ave R by 31st east

    • Tech 49 says

      October 14, 2014 at 12:23 am

      The map shows that the area that you are requesting is part of the planned resurfacing (Area 6, System 2).

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