Road and Bridge

The Road and Bridge Division has four Operating Units - Maintenance, Traffic, Drainage and Stormwater - and is responsible for providing maintenance and reconstructing of County roadways and drainage facilities with 84 employees, plus 18 contract labor employees.

The Maintenance Section is responsible for maintaining 357 miles of paved roadways, 98 miles of rock/dirt roads, and 51 miles of asphalt milled roads. Road maintenance includes right-of-way mowing, surface patching, shoulder repair, and grading of dirt roads.

The Traffic Section is responsible for designing new signals; the maintenance, repair and operation of existing signals and fl ashers; the fabrication of regulation, warning and street signs; the installation of signs; the application annually of roadway thermoplastic stripping and marking of paved roadways; conducting traffic counts and traffic operation studies; maintaining the County’s accident data base.

The Drainage Unit is responsible for the mechanical cleaning of 1,100 plus miles of roadway ditches/swales and 50 plus miles of primary drainways/canals. The unit includes two small construction crews utilized for MSBU related roadway/drainage construction, as well as drop inlet, culvert, and similar drainage construction projects. This section manages the roadway-resurfacing program and the Driveway Permit Inspections for the County.