How Road/Street Fix/Repair is done in your place?

mulia24

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Hi Everyone,

I'm wondering how public utilities work especially in road/street repair/fix (well, I don't know which one is in use) in your place/country.

In my country, if the road/street already severely broken or have a hole, they just put asphalt on it and ended with 'higher than the road itself stack'.

If the road is severely broken and there are high official government officer like minister or president/vice will pass the way, they will just 'stack' the old asphalt, just like making a new road, as the result, the road will become higher and higher than the surrounding.

Take a look at photos I took several minutes ago.

In the picture one below, you can see how street level seen from inside my house.

My house is built about 15 years ago, it was built to be higher 20cm from the street level in order to prevent flood.
But, now the road is higher about 30cm from my house floor caused by stack and stack of asphalt made by public work/utilities working when renewing the street as you can see in the picture.





In the picture two below, you can see the new asphalt already laid (the blackest one), last night in middle night by public work worker and again make the road higher and higher than my house floor now.
When the rain is falling, I always have my worry level increased to highest level in worry of flood/water invading my home.




I heard in some countries, they 'grab' and clean the old street asphalt before laying a new asphalt and that's why their citizen have no worry about having their house floor lower than street.
my question is, is this kind of thing happen in your country/place too?
 
here in Arkansas, it's a mix. They patch the holes by piling on new asphalt. every few years, the whole road will get a new layer. after enough patches/layers, they will come through demo all of the old asphalt and haul it away. They then begin the whole process all over again. It's not uncommon for there to be a huge bump from the level of your driveway up onto the road way.
 
Thanks for the reply Danierra. :)

hmm... it's been more than 20 years I lived here and I've never seen there are such process here. There is no old asphalt full dumping process, it means, in the few years, my house will become lower and lower from the road level and I'll live with flood threat everytime I see hard rain... :-s

Public utilities department here is really lazy department, well, almost all government department is fulfilled with greedy and corrupt plus lazy officer. I just wondering is there any solution to prevent this flood before it happen, not by moving house or build a fortress to block flood. :(
 
Hi Mulia,

Here the old layer of asphalt is ground down before a new layer is added. I think they recycle the old asphalt.

Can you do a ditch to divert the water from your house?

Imp
 
They just did our street last year. They pulled the top layer off the old, and with how it had risen and settled, they also had to saw off the top of the sewer pipes too, to lower them to the level of the new road.

It isn't a flat road, it's like it's humped up in the middle with various heights. They straightened it out as best the could. Then they laid fresh road down. Then they came along and remade all the curbs and the driveway entrances.

It's probably the only time that's been done in the last 15 years, and I'll likely never see it again. We have so many roads, they have endless work, and no neighborhood seems to get done twice. In the city anyways. The village a couple houses up has had their stretch of the same road done like 3 times since I've lived here. Course with the taxes they pay up there, they better not hit a pothole!
 
Hi Imp, thanks for sharing.. :)


huff... we do have ditch to cover rain water... but... everytime rain happen, the water level in drain always so high, it means that water that flow through the ditch isn't so smooth as water that come from downpour.. :(

and by having the road level getting higher and higher every year, doesn't it means that public utility worker don't care with risk of flood to resident's houses? :(

I've already seen lots of house that became the victims of this road highering effect. They get flood (well, water inside and blocking around their house) everytime downpour happen..
 
In my area they patch patch patch until it is falling apart all over they pave it again start the process all over again until they get to what you are talking it about and then grind it level (or almost level) recycle the old asphalt and repave.
 
Hi Mulia !

Good to read a message of yours again !

How is SCHOOL going in your part of Indonesia?

To "protect yourself from flooding" you MIGHT build your own "French Drain" if you have an area LOWER than your house where the water can drain to.

( A "French Drain" is basically a Trench with PVC - plastic pipe - in it. The pipe has holes in the top to accept the water. YOU PUT THEM THERE. The whole trench is also filled with loose gravel. Then you cover it back over with dirt. The pipe will "channel" the water to the low-lying area that you dig to AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE. )

You can do a "Google Search" to learn MORE about "French Drains".

BEST REGARDS to YOU, Mulia !

THE Curmudgeon
 
Here they slap some asphalt mix into holes. Our road recently got redone.They added a layer of black top.It is a we bit higher than my driverway,so now I get to drive through a pond where the drive/road meet every time it rains!

In my back yard where it floods during rains I have dug ditches a few feet wide/deep and many feet long. Diverting worked way better than when I tried to BLOCK the water. You just can't block water-it finds a way.Dig ditches or build up berms to divert the water.

I am sure like here it would be a waste to talk to city officials.People around here that have had flood damaged homes did finally get the city to add some more storm water drains. I guess suing them after the damage helped.
 
it cost money to dig up old roads to lay down new.. so I can understand why they just keep adding on layers.

Diverting the water away from your home is the only way to prevent the water... either by drain or by dam. Sand bags, ditches, drainage, irrigation drainage, etc.

Your road looks better than most of ours!! In Michigan sometimes they "resurface" roads by spraying down tar, and dumping loose stones over it, then expect people to drive on it and pack it down. This method doesn't "fix" the pot holes, or cracks that break off... just makes a mess of our cars, stone chips in the paint and windshields, sticky tar on the cars. I refuse to drive down these roads until they sweep off the loose stones. I'm not ruining my expensive vehicle, or killing myself on a bike! A few years ago, the corner at my home, all the stones came off, leaving just the tar. On a hot day it would be like grease, all the tar would be flipping up on to your car, and.. you'd slip n slide on it...it was down right deadly if you were on a motorcycle!! They (or someone) just tossed sand on it rather than fixing it...
 
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