What Are The Needs?

The full list of projects is known as the Capital Improvements Plan (or CIP).

The CIP includes these needed street and storm water projects:

Priority Streets

Estimated Construction Costs

Booth St. (50th St. to 49th Ter)

$191,500

Adams St. (50th St. to 48th Ter)

$340,000

49th Terrace (Belinder to Adams)

$300,500

49th Terrace (Mission to Belinder)

$370,000

49th St. (Adams to Rainbow)

$97,000

50th Terrace (Belinder to Mission)

$423,000

Streets Subtotal: 

$1,722,500

 

Priority Storm Water Projects

Estimated Construction Costs

Adams St. Near 49th St.

$228,500

50th St. to 51st St.

$185,500

Belinder Ct. and 48th Ter

$90,500

Storm Water Subtotal:

$504,500

 

Future Street Needs

Estimated Construction Costs

48th St. (Mission to Belinder)

$385,500

48th St. (Rainbow to State Line)

$500,000

47th Ter (Rainbow to State Line)

$450,000

48th Terrace (Mission Rd. to End)

$248,500

50th St. (Rainbow to Mission)

$556,000

47th Terrace (Mission to Belinder)

$266,000

Future Street Needs Subtotal:

$2,406,000

What Does Storm Water Improvements Include?

Stormdrain

 

Storm water improvements include curb and gutter, curb inlets (where water enters the system), and the necessary underground piping system.

Many of the needed street projects were initially constructed without any underground storm water systems.  New storm water infrastructure will be added on several Westwood street projects, in addition to other needed drainage areas where the existing piping systems are old and deteriorating.

What Is Street Reconstruction?

Broken street

Streets in need of repair have telltale signs that reveal their need for attention. Although what's happening below the street surface may not be visible, aging pavement will determine what's happening below the pavement surface. Over time, as the pavement surface loses flexibility, small cracks appear. Over the 50-year expected life-span of a street, the cracks worsen and move into the pavement sub-grade, which requires costly street reconstruction.

Most of the street repair projects that have been completed in Westwood in the recent past have been mill-and-overlay street projects, where only the top surface area of the street is shaved off, and a new asphalt driving surface is applied.

Many of the needed remaining street projects for Westwood will require a complete rebuilding of the subgrade, asphalt base and surface course of asphalt - not just a simple repair or overlay. These types of projects are more expensive to complete.

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