Murrysville awards contract for summer road work

Murrysville council awarded a $1.2 million contract to Tresco Paving for the municipality’s 2020 overlay program.

This year’s program includes just over 8 miles of roadwork, and the bid from Plum-based Tresco came in below engineering estimates, council President Dayne Dice said.

Roads on the list include:

• Old William Penn Highway between Export and Delmont

• Windover Road between Cherry Drive and Hills Church Road

• Ashbaugh Road between Saltsburg and Mamont roads

• Laurel Oak Circle

• Cypress Drive

• Evans Road between Wiestertown Road and Sinan Drive

• Puckety Drive between Export and Penn Township

• Sinan Drive between Sinan Farm Drive and Hills Church Road

• Waters Edge Court

• Woodhaven Drive between Kilmer Court and Woodbrook Lane

Chief Administrator Jim Morrison said public works crews would consider using alternate road treatments similar to work done last year along Wiestertown Road. The municipality explored treatments including a flexible road base, an oil-and-fiberglass application, fog seal and seal coating.

Morrison said the seal coating was particularly effective.

“It’s held up and the cost is about two-thirds that of pavement,” he told council members in February. “So we’re looking to do that on the engineered and more-traveled roads.”

Because of restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, Morrison could not say when the overlay program would get under way.