2024 street repaving repairing and sealcoating program
Lakewood will spend more than $12 million on street maintenance this year to repave city-owned streets with new asphalt, repair concrete curbs and gutters and to sealcoat streets to extend the life of the asphalt.
Keeping roads in good condition is important to residents and businesses, so it’s critical to slow down while crews are working. After all, they are taking care of city streets so community members can take care of what’s important to them.
Work on the streets will get underway as the weather allows, and this year’s maintenance includes the following:
- 36 lane miles of concrete repair and asphalt repaving.
- 4 lane miles of asphalt repaving only.
- 91 lane miles of Reclamite® sealcoating.
- 75 lane miles of sealcoating.
- 30 lane miles of concrete repair only.
A lane mile is one mile covering one, 12-foot lane width on one side of a road. Lakewood has about 1,400 lane miles of roadway, and it costs about $140,000 a mile to repave an average two-lane street.
The complete list of the streets in the 2024 maintenance program is available at Lakewood.org/StreetRepairs, which also includes a map of the streets to be maintained. A video on the page also explains Lakewood’s street maintenance program including pothole repair and crack sealing.
Maintenance categories
Concrete repair: Removes and replaces badly deteriorated sections of curb, gutter, sidewalk and drainage crosspans. Several miles of streets scheduled for repair of concrete only in 2024 will receive asphalt repaving in 2025.
Asphalt repaving: Performed on streets approaching failure or having poor ride quality. The roadway is rotomilled, or scraped, to remove the existing asphalt surface to allow for a new layer of asphalt without causing excessive buildup or crowns in the roadway.
Reclamite® sealcoating: Preventative maintenance used to rejuvenate the top layer of existing asphalt that is in fair condition and has few cracks. This helps recover streets that are suffering from oxidation and protects streets against the effects of weathering. This product is a semi-clear penetrating oil that is sprayed on the pavement, then covered in sand to prevent cars from picking up the oil. After 24 hours, the oil is absorbed into the pavement, and the streets are swept to collect loose sand. Streets receiving this treatment initially have a blotchy, wet appearance but return to a uniform, gray color.
Sealcoating: Extends the life of asphalt by applying a thin layer that serves as a barrier to moisture, deflects ultraviolet sun rays and helps prevent cracking. This product is sprayed on streets, which require their closure for 24 hours after it’s applied. Prior to road closures, each affected property owner is provided with the time frame for the closure and the contact information for the contractor performing the work.
Sample of streets receiving maintenance
- Repaving West Eighth Avenue from Simms to Quail streets.
- Repaving Oak Street from West Sixth Avenue Service Road to West Colfax Avenue.
- Concrete repair and repaving Pierce Street from West 10th to West 20th avenues.
- Concrete repair and repaving Dover Street from West Colfax to West 21st avenues.
- Concrete repair and repaving Allison/Virginia Parkway from West Alameda Avenue to Wadsworth Boulevard.
- Concrete repair and repaving of Garrison Street from West Mississippi to West Alameda avenues.
- Concrete repair and repaving Green Mountain Drive from Green Mountain Drive to a cul-de-sac.
- Concrete repair and repaving Jewell Avenue from Garrison Street to Wadsworth Boulevard.
- Concrete repair on Garrison Street from West Alameda to West Sixth avenues.
- Concrete repair on Florida Avenue from Endicott Street to Wadsworth Boulevard.
- Concrete repair on Union Boulevard from West Jewell to West Alameda avenues.
- Reclamite® sealcoating Beech Street from Beech Circle to Exposition Avenue.