Auglaize County Engineer Doug Reinhart presented the 2018 Paving Program Auglaize County Board of Commissioners Tuesday morning.
The plan involves hot mixing 6.1 miles at a cost of $409,310, full chip sealing 22.02 miles at a cost pf $221,163, strip chip sealing 22.77 miles at a cost of $101,783 and chip sealing 12.9 miles of township roads with a cost yet to be determined.
“The roads begin hot mixed are a section of Wapak-Cridersville,” he said. “Williams Road up by Buckland, the northern two miles of Santa Fe Line and Macbeth Road by New Hampshire to the south.”
6.1 miles of road is a drastic decrease from what the department was paving even 10 years ago. In 2014, 15.97 miles of road were paved with hot mix, versus 6.4 miles the year after.
“We used to hot mix more than 40 miles of road for several years,” Reinhart noted. “We also did more than 44 in 2004 after the gas tax increase. But what happened is the cost of hot mix doubled.”
The cost of hot mix has since increased from $27 in 2003 to $77 last year, a whole 283 percent.
“The last six years we've averaged 9.6 miles of hot mix a year,” he said. “That was even with...
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