Article: Repairs eat away at Boone County, Mo., funds for roads.

By Miglena Sternadori, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 13--Boone County officials have discovered that many roads upgraded in the past are failing, and repairs are likely to become more of a priority than new road construction next year.

The worst damage is on chip-and-seal roads, about a third of which have disintegrated or are severely damaged.

Chip Estabrooks, maintenance operations manager for the Boone County Public Works Department, said the county has 61.65 miles of chip-and-seal roads and about 19 miles have either "turned themselves back to gravel" or are more than 50 percent degraded, ...

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