Visitors Advisory – Slurry Sealing City Roads

With the conclusion of chip seal operations this week, contractors working for the City of Montrose will start slurry sealing roadways throughout the City starting Monday, July 6.

The remaining undertaking will final roughly three extra weeks. Please see the hooked up maps for the tentative slurry seal schedule, which is topic to climate or gear delays.

Chip-sealed street lately accomplished will seem once more on the slurry seal schedules to obtain their remaining remedy, making a pavement upkeep system referred to as a cape seal.

Slurry seal is a kind of floor remedy during which small combination is suspended in an oil/water emulsion. As the emulsion cures, it types a clean black seal on the asphalt pavement. Slurry seals are finest used on roads which are nonetheless in good situation, earlier than any main failures happen.

The seal helps forestall the roadway from deteriorating, extending the lifetime of the asphalt and stopping extra pricey repairs sooner or later. The curing interval sometimes takes 4 to five hours. During this era, automobiles is not going to be permitted to drive on the freshly positioned slurry. Residential roads will probably be closed throughout this era to all visitors except indicated in any other case on the map.

Minor arterials or lengthy cul-de-sacs comparable to 6530 Rd, Lilac Rd, 6600 Rd, 6650 Rd, Locust Rd, 6700 Rd, Miami Rd, Woodgate Rd, and segments of Deer Trail Rd, Mesa Vista, Heather Ln, Laurel Ln, and Iris Ct will stay open to one-lane visitors and managed by means of the usage of flaggers or a pilot automotive by means of the curing interval.

Access to adjoining companies will probably be maintained to the best extent potential.