Road Operations

Maintenance activities are funded under the following program areas:

• Roadway/Shoulder Maintenance (includes pothole patching, crack filling, chip sealing, slurry seals, base stabilization, rocking shoulders, grading gravel roads, dust abatement)
  
  
• Drainage (includes catch basin cleaning, manhole and drywell maintenance, culvert cleaning and replacement, ditching, installation of storm systems)
  
  
• Bridge Maintenance (includes painting, flushing/cleaning, scouring control)
  
  
• Deputy Program (includes truck safety inspections, weight control, misc. traffic control activities)
  
  
• Incidental Traffic and Safety Services (includes snow and ice control, street sweeping, litter control, pavement markings, striping, sign installation/maintenance)
  
  
• Roadside Vegetation/Median Maintenance/Swales and Ponds (includes roadside mowing, brush cutting, median maintenance, swale and pond maintenance)
  
  
• CRP (overlays, walkway construction, fish passage projects, traffic calming device construction)

Functional areas are broken into:

Technical Services

• Responsible for County's pavement management program which directs our work effort at preserving our roadway network.

Responds to questions regarding:

• Types of application to be used overlay, base stabilization, slurry seal projects)
• Definitions of the different types of road surface treatments
  

Landscape Maintenance

• Responsible for all maintenance of medians and other landscaped areas within County right-of-way.
  

ROW and Median Vegetation Maintenance

• Responsible for:
  
• Maintenance and enhancements of all medians within the unincorporated areas of Clark County
• Responds to sight distance issues
• Removal of vegetation on overlay and slurry projects.
  

Specialty Services

• Responsible for traffic control and bridge maintenance.
  

Responds to questions regarding:

• When is my road going to be striped
• When will the buttons be replaced on a certain road
• When will the signal that has a burned out lamp be replaced
• When will our bridge get repainted
• Bridge limitations (includes load, height and closures)

Rural North County

• Responsible for general maintenance response to north County (geographically encompasses County right-of-way (ROW) north of 199th Street west of SR-503, ROW north of 159th Street between SR-503 and 172nd Avenue, and ROW north and south of 99th Street east of 172nd Ave)
  
  
• Chip Seal preservation program

Responds to questions regarding:

• When we'll be plowing or sanding a road during inclement weather
• Which roads are plowed and sanded
• When is a pothole going to be repaired
• Vegetation maintenance schedule
• Drainage concerns
• When is our road going to be dust oiled or graded
• When will the shoulder be repaired
• Why is the road chip sealed instead of paved with hot mix
  

NPDES/Asphalt and Special Projects

• Responsible for NPDES activities (street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, swale/pond maintenance)
  
• Special project works (Cold mix overlays, other day labor projects)

Responds to questions regarding:

• When is my street going to be swept
• When will the swale behind my home be mowed
  

Urban

• Responsible for general maintenance
• Small capital projects (response to south County (geographically encompasses County right-of-way south of 199th Street west of SR-503, ROW south of 159th Street between SR-503 and 172nd Avenue, and ROW south of 99th Street east of 172nd Avenue)

Responds to questions regarding:

• When we'll be fixing a pothole
• How soon we'll be picking up litter
• When will we be plowing or sanding a street
• When will the repair on a shoulder be completed
• How soon will a sight distance problem be remedied
• Special project status