Gwinnett Commissioners awarded nearly $22 million in resurfacing contracts for county roads last month. The Georgia Department of Transportation will pay for 29 percent of the contract cost.
Gwinnett documents and rates roads in need of resurfacing every year. That data is then sorted to identify the roads in most need of resurfacing. Gwinnett will resurface just over 145 centerline miles of roadway this year.
For the purposes of this bid, the county was split into four areas: North, Northwest, West and Southwest. Of the five responses received, ER Snell Contractor, Inc., had the lowest bid on all four sections, totaling $21,721,450.
Gwinnett’s share of the project is funded by the 2017 SPLOST program. State funding is through the Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant program, or LMIG.
Transportation Director Alan Chapman said, “Resurfacing studies and our own experience have shown if we can maintain the riding surface on a roadway, we will spend less money over time keeping it in good repair.”
For more information on the Gwinnett County resurfacing program, www.tinyurl.com/GwinnettResurfacing.
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