The City of Clarendon will fog seal approximately 58 blocks of paved streets next week in an effort to protect those roads from water damage in the future.
The $40,000 project will focus on streets that were paved in the last ten years with 45 blocks on the west side of town and parts of 13 blocks on the east side.
The project will take two days, and the contractor will do about half the project each day, beginning Tuesday, October 1, and starting on the west side of town.
City officials are asking residents on the streets depicted on the adjacent map to move any parked vehicles off those roads next Tuesday and Wednesday so the project can be completed. Cars left on those streets may be towed.
Contractor G.W. James of Pampa says a fog seal is a mixture of 40 percent asphalt and 60 percent water that is sprayed on the pavement surface to seal cracks.
Although not as long-lasting as a traditional tar and gravel seal coat, this more economical measure will provide some protection for the streets to keep water from getting into the pavement.
The seal sprays on like water, but the water evaporates out of the mixture leaving the asphalt behind, James said.
The affected streets will be barricaded as they are sealed, and the mixture dries in about four hours, city officials say.
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