BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
GREEN COVE SPRINGS— The county’s deputy director of engineering told Clay County commissioners that the total cost to repair all the county’s paved roads would total $60 million.
During the commission’s June 14 meeting, Taylor Abernathy presented the results of a pavement survey performed on all 795 miles of Clay County paved roads.
Abernathy added that residential roads make up 714 miles of that total. The survey ranked the condition of county roads from good to poor.
When asked by Chair Wayne Bolla how much it would cost to prevent any further deterioration of county roads, Abernathy replied $11.5 million. The county’s total road budget is $7 million a year.
Abernathy said the county has six options to repair or replace pavement, ranging from sealing cracks at a cost of $1.50 per linear foot to reconstruction with a cost of $6.90 per square foot.
Commissioner Betsy Condon said she disagreed with some of the survey’s findings. She said the survey rated some roads in her district, like Bedford Lake Road, Bedford Oak Drive and Immokalee Road, as good. She added that in her opinion, those roads were in worse shape than other roads the survey rated as poor.
