BY PHIL CUSTODIO
Clarkston News Editor
According to city engineers, the City of the Village of Clarkston has less than a decade to fix its roads before many of them completely crumble.
Hubbell, Roth and Clark is working on a Roadway Asset Management Plan for the city to submit to the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council, and found 23.8 percent of the city’s 5.6 miles of roads were rated as “poor”; 66.1 percent, “fair”; and 10.1 percent, “good.”
Using the Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating (PASER) 10-point system, with 1 being the worst, the city’s average rating was 4.3. Ratings of 4-6 are considered “fair.”
“If the city spends no money annually for maintenance, the score is projected to decrease to 1.7 in 10 years,” said city engineer Gary Tressel of HRC at the Sept. 10 City Council meeting. “If you increase spending to $75,000, it would decrease to 4.0 in 10 years.”
The city engineers with Hubbell, Roth and Clark will consult with City Council on the plan, which must be turned in by the end of the year.
“All we need is you folks to go through budget hearings and provide a realistic number we can put in here to project 10 years out,” Tressel said. “The sooner you can start preventative maintenance, the better.”
“We can come together and figure out the next four years, what we’ll be able to do,” said Mayor Steven Percival.