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- 2 - I. INTRODUCTION The City Council of the City of Little Canada authorized Elfering & Associates to prepare this report to determine the feasibility of rehabilitating three streets within the City as part of the 2106 Street and Utility Improvements project. The following is a list of the streets that have been identified by the City to be considered for improvement. REHABILITATION STREET FROM TO LENGTH (ft) Aspen Circle County Road D County Road D 1,200’ Demont Avenue McMenemy Street Savage Lane 1,200’ Morrison Avenue Demont Avenue Cul-de-sac 1,350’ TOTAL 3,770’ Exhibits 1 through 3 in Appendix A show the project locations and the properties that will be affected. The City of Little Canada has a Pavement Management Program in-place. The purpose of this program is to maintain and improve the street system within the City. The Pavement Management Program rates all City streets in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the City’s pavement upgrade program. All of the City’s streets were rated in the spring of 1997 using the MicroPAVER PCI surface distress survey and inventory methodology for a network level inspection. Each street within the City was broken into segments using intersections as the dividing points. A 2,500 square-foot test section was measured out for each segment to represent the entire segment. The data collected from the field for each test section consisted of 19 different types of pavement distress and the level of severity of each one. The different types of distress include longitudinal and transverse cracking, alligator cracking, bumps, potholes, and weathering, among others. Based on this collected field data, the computer program generated a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) rating for each street. The American Public Works Association’s (APWA) MicroPAVER software was used to reduce field data into a PCI rating on a scale of 0 to 100. Streets are then selected for maintenance, rehabilitation or reconstruction, based upon the PCI rating, Department of Public Works history of maintenance, field observation, and engineering judgment. The streets are then prioritized for various maintenance procedures or rehabilitation. Streets with PCI ratings of 0 to 60 are candidates for reconstruction. Those streets with ratings in the range of 61 to 80 are candidates for surface rehabilitation in the form of recycling or milling and overlaying. Streets with a rating in the range of 81 to 90 are candidates for crack sealing and seal coating as preventative maintenance. Streets with a rating in the range of 91 to 100 would require no maintenance. All pavement ratings within the City were reviewed and revised by the Public Works staff in 2004 to update all street ratings. The streets proposed for improvement in 2016 were again reviewed by City Staff to provide an estimated current rating