ROAD MAINTENANCE
Roadway maintenance involves a variety of seasonal operations performed throughout the year. Seven full-time and one part-time Road Department employees maintain nearly 97 center line miles (195 lane miles) of roadway and the accompanying road right-of-way. Maintenance duties include:
Daily Activities:
- Routine and emergency roadway repairs
- Emergency roadway obstruction removal
- Snow and Ice control
- Rural right-of-way ditch/ berm maintenance
- Traffic sign repair
- Roadside weed control
- Township fleet maintenance
- Township facility maintenance
- Service calls for resident-reported road issues.
Yearly Programs:
- Roadway crack sealing-preventive maintenance (spring)
- Right-of-way stormwater system management (fall)
- Rural roadside litter control (winter/spring)
- Rural right-of-way berm mowing (spring/summer)
- Rural right-of-way vegetation control (winter)
- Subdivision street sweeping (fall)
- Traffic sign inspection (winter)
- Culvert and catch basin inspection (winter)
- Stormwater inlet maintenance (spring/summer)
- Right-of-way subdivision tree trimming (winter)
