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DEPARTMENTS |
Boundary County Road & Bridge Summer Operations 6 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday
About 90% of hard-surfaced roads in the Boundary County road system are paved using cold-mix asphalt, with 100% of the work done by the county crew. While this method provides a thinner surface "mat" than using hot-mix asphalt, which is more desirable but much more expensive, the county is able to maintain more miles of hard-surfaced roads without increasing the budget or reducing other road maintenance costs. |
Most maintenance work to county roads occur during the summer
months. During the oiling season, the "hot" part of the
summer, crews patch hard-surfaced roads by hand and with graders, using
asphalt mix batched by the crushing crew at the county gravel pit.
County road and bridge crews also chip-seal county roads, a task many
state and local jurisdictions have done by private contractors. Doing
the task ourselves is extremely cost-effective and allows the county to
preserve and manage its county road system.