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Knoxville City Council Approves Road Work
An area company will have the chance to make the drive through Knoxville a little better.

The Knoxville City Council Monday night accepted the bid of Johnson Trucking and Blacktopping from Gilson to perform oil and chip projects throughout the city. The company bid over 11 percent less than the cost estimated by engineers of the overall cost of the project. Johnson blacktopping also bid about $5,000 less than a company out of Jacksonville to win the bid.

Shawn Maurer, a design engineer at the engineering firm of Bruner, Cooper, and Zuck says the Gilson company has done work in the past on the streets of Knoxville and in Galesburg and other small towns in the area. He also said that some of the materials used this time would cost less than those in the past and work out better too.

The oil and chip projects in town are for the maintenance of sealing cracks in the roads surface. City officials say that the cracks in the road come from a heavy traffic flow, heavy loads on the road, as well as the contracting and expanding of soil during freeze and thaw cycles.

Since the council bid out the project using an asphalt material, the city will get at least 15 to 20 years of use before the road begins to show some form of wear.
05 18 09 by Newsroom
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