The City of San Angelo is working to upgrade and maintain its aging roadway and underground infrastructure.
A few years ago, the City Council decided to release a CIP bond every other year for roadway infrastructure. A company used ground-penetrating radar and assessed the condition of every street in the city. This study helped rank all of the streets that needed to be repaired and resurfaced and determine whether they needed to be completely reconstructed or whether a mill and overlay would be acceptable.
The resulting CIP plan details major roadways that need to be reconstructed, and several are in progress.
The city is also assessing the infrastructure under the roadway, looking for aging water and sewer lines. Taking care of both the surface infrastructure and the underlying infrastructure at the same time will result in both having a longer life cycle.
Most piping has a 40- to 60-year lifecycle. The city does track and rank its piping system; as the city sees areas that have leaks, crews look at which lines need to be replaced and try to phase that in with the roadway project to create a single project. That way there are no unexpected water or sewer line breaks underneath a roadway that has just been reconstructed.
The city has 640 miles of pipe and thousands of miles of roadway to maintain.
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