County D.O.T. employees prepare to lay down chips during the chip sealing work this week on CR 12 north of Cotopaxi
Crews with the Fremont County Department of Transportation took on chip seal road projects during the dog days of summer, but the work that was targeted over the past five weeks is now winding down. Fog sealing the more than seven miles of county road is the final step in the chip seal surfacing work that began in mid June.
Roads that saw chip seal improvements this summer included 9-tenths of a mile on Dozier and Central Avenues in Cañon City, two miles on Copper Gulch Road, one mile on ‘K’ Street at Penrose, one mile on County Road 1A south of Cotopaxi, 1 mile on County Road 12 north of Cotopaxi, and 1.7 miles on County Road 27A, which is also a portion of Copper Gulch Road headed towards Custer County.
The county spent $217,000 this summer on the 7.6 miles of chip seal work amounting to a cost of $28,500 per mile.
Crews laying down a mat of oil for chip sealing a section of Frazier Avenue in Florence this summer