Archive for Monday, June 28, 2010

Council gets pothole patching update

By Melissa Treolo

June 28, 2010

It was all about street work Monday night, as the Bonner Springs City Council discussed street repairs that have been completed and future plans yet in the works.

During a work shop prior to the council meeting, public works director Kevin Bruemmer outlined a list of streets where pothole patching has taken place. In a memorandum included in the evening’s agenda packet, Bruemmer stated that since Jan. 1 of this year, $7,650 had been spent on repairing 2,242 potholes on streets that include Metropolitan, Riverview and Kansas Avenue.

Thus far, Bruemmer said during the council meeting, repairs have only been made to the surface of the asphalt where potholes have formed in a process called skim patching. But he said a process called mill and patch, where repairs will be made beneath the surface and are longer lasting, will get started within the next two weeks, weather permitting.

Streets that will benefit from the mill and patch include Lakewood, Second Street, Commercial Drive and the intersection of Garfield and Insley.

• More of what happened during the Bonner Springs City Council meeting can be found in the July 1 issue of The Chieftain.

Comments

  1. padams02 (anonymous) says…

    I think there are another 3,000 potholes on Kansas Ave between K-7 and 142nd street - ya know, the street where the city and county argue over who has responsibility of it, although it is in the city limits, and nobody does anything with.

    I have to drive this road a minimum of 4 times a day to care for horses that we have out that direction, and it is ridiculous.

    Maybe fixing the potholes will also make people feel depressed that they have lost their job, similar to the Bonner Blast.