The Dorr Township Roads Com
mittee has estimated it would cost $3.3 million to fix local paved roads and more than $9 million to get gravel roads up to snuff.
Township Treasurer Jim Martin passed out three information work sheets the committee had been working on earlier this month, showing estimates and where the work could be done.
Martin said the data included, “all 152 paved roads and what they need to be brought up to where they should be… and the nine million, that’s just to get started (on gravel roads).”
The special citizens’ roads panel first got together in the fall of 2014 and came up with a plan to fix township roads with a three-mill levy, but it was rejected at the polls in a special election last May at the same time voters statewide were turning down a State Legislature roads proposal by record margins.
The list of paved roads included projected needs, such as crack filling, resurfacing, chip and seal, sealcoat, complete rebuild and no maintenance.
Estimated as most expensive were resurfacing 135th Avenue from 20th Street east to 18th Street and a total rebuild of nearly a mile of Janet Drive, both coming in at $200,000.
A total rebuild of seven-tenths of a mile 17th Street at 144th Avenue south to end of pavement came in an estimated $175,000 and a total rebuild of 144th from U.S.-131 east to 12th Street and a total rebuild of just over a half mile of Joan Drive both checked in at $150,000.
Most of the 29 gravel roads identified would cost at least $400,000 for repairs and eventual paving.
It was noted that neighboring Salem Township has used a five-mill levy approved by voters to pave all of its roads over the years and now it has no costs for dust control.
The special Roads Committee, headed by Carolyn Sandel, has not made any decisions yet about trying for a local millage effort, but there is plenty of speculation that a ballot proposal will face Dorr Township voters in the November general election.
