47 Spot Repair ($-$$$) Spot repairs include a variety of treatments to resolve localized pavement distress. They are effective when a relatively small portion of a roadway or parking lot requires a different treatment than the rest of the pavement. They may include activities such as the following (this is not a comprehensive list): • Removing and replacing damaged pavement. • Patching to repair excavation for utility construction or repair. • Filling and recompacting a utility trench or around a manhole and reconstructing the pavement section. • Resolving drainage problems that lead to ponded water on the asphalt or along the edge of the asphalt. • Excavating into the subgrade material, stabilizing it, and reconstructing the pavement section. • Filling potholes. • Widening asphalt to move the edge of asphalt farther away from the wheel path. • Replacing poor quality patches. • Placing additional asphalt to level the roadway surface. The process of performing a spot repair is unique to the circumstances. Repairs typically don’t take much time to perform and may be performed by just a few workers. However, they almost always require some form of traffic control and care should be taken to protect workers and the public. The benefit of spot repairs is they provide an economical way to repair problem areas without having to perform a treatment over a large area when only a small portion of it needs to the treatment.
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