Pearland City Council approved funding for a construction contract in the amount of $491,135 for asphalt paving services on Orange Street between between SH 35 and Old Alvin Road. This project will provide base repair and the installation of a new driving surface. Particular attention will be paid to the elevation of the new driving surface. In an effort to ensure that the project has no adverse impacts on storm water drainage in the area, the new surface will not be raised relative to the elevation of the old surface.

The Right of Way assessment performed in 2014 identified Orange as needing extensive repairs to both the base and driving surface. It was determined that the work required to rehabilitate Orange Street was too extensive to be performed in house by the Public Works Department or through the Interlocal Agreement with Brazoria County. To that end, an engineering firm was hired to further investigate the condition of Orange Street, design improvements and prepare construction plans and bid documents for the work. Two additional streets were evaluated by the contracted firm. The investigation determined that it would be more cost effective to address these two streets via the Interlocal paving agreement with Brazoria County because both were a good fit for the Interlocal agreement as neither required the extensive base work necessary for Orange.

The construction is expected to be complete in early 2016.

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