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<br /> <br />- 2 - <br />I. INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />The City Council of the City of Little Canada authorized Elfering & Associates to prepare <br />this report to determine the feasibility of rehabilitating or reconstructing four streets <br />through various degrees of improvement methods. The following is a list of the streets <br />that have been identified by the City to be considered for improvements. <br /> <br /> <br />PROPOSED <br />IMPROVEMENT <br />METHOD <br />Vanderbie Road Labore Road Allen Avenue 1,700 Full Depth Reclaim <br />& Pave <br />Rose Place East <br />& Lakeshore Ave.Jackson Street Lake Street 1,100 Reconstruction <br />Labore Avenue Jackson Street Cul-de-sac 850 Reconstruction <br />TOTAL 3,650 <br />STREET SEGMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT METHOD <br />FROMSTREETS TO LENGTH (ft) <br /> <br /> <br />Exhibits 1 thru 3 in Appendix A show the project locations and the properties that will be <br />affected. <br /> <br />The City of Little Canada has a Pavement Management Program in-place. The purpose <br />of this program is to maintain and improve the street system within the City. The <br />Pavement Management Program rates all City streets in order to improve the efficiency <br />and effectiveness of the City’s pavement upgrade program. <br /> <br />The first official rating of the City’s streets was completed in the spring of 1997 using the <br />MicroPAVER PCI surface distress survey and inventory methodology for a network level <br />inspection. Each street within the City was broken into segments using intersections as <br />the dividing points. A 2,500 square-foot test section was measured out for each <br />segment to represent the entire segment. The data collected from the field for each test <br />section consisted of 19 different types of pavement distress and the level of severity of <br />each one. The different types of distress include longitudinal and transverse cracking, <br />alligator cracking, bumps, potholes, and weathering, among others. Based on this <br />collected field data, the computer program generated a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) <br />rating for each street. <br /> <br />The American Public Works Association’s (APWA) MicroPAVER software was used to <br />reduce field data into a PCI rating on a scale of 0 to 100. Streets are then selected for <br />maintenance, rehabilitation or reconstruction, based upon the PCI rating, Department of <br />Public Works history of maintenance, field observation, and engineering judgment. <br /> <br />The streets are then prioritized for various maintenance procedures or rehabilitation. <br />Streets with PCI ratings of 0 to 60 are candidates for reconstruction. Those streets with <br />ratings in the range of 61 to 80 are candidates for surface rehabilitation in the form of <br />recycling or milling and overlaying. Streets with a rating in the range of 81 to 90 are <br />candidates for crack sealing and seal coating as preventative maintenance. Streets with