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Road Project to Prevent Flooding on Capitola’s Garden Street
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Road Project to Prevent Flooding on Capitola’s Garden Street
By Michael Thomas
Late winter storms brought flooding to streets and roads in every corner of Santa Cruz County.
According to Capitola Police Works Director Steve Jesberg, there’ve been relatively few problems, considering the persistence of the storms.
“We have done incredibly well,” Jesberg said. “We had some intersection flooding but they cleared.”
“I know of no property damage that has occurred from our soggy March,” he added.
But at the intersection of 38th Avenue and Garden Street, pools of stagnant water on the roadway have been a regular annoyance for residents and public works officials.
This spring, the area will be repaired with new storm drains, curbs and gutters.
Granite Construction has been awarded the project after submitting a bid of $199,000. As part of the roadwork, the contractor will also connect gaps in the neighborhood’s sidewalks, according to Joel Lacagnin, the Public Works civil engineer who drew up the plans.
Lacagnin said that sidewalks will be added to 38th Avenue from Brommer on Garden and about 100 feet south of Garden.
Though the project area is just a few blocks from the Capitola Mall, it lies mostly in County territory, with a small portion in the City of Capitola. As a result, the County’s Redevelopment Agency will pay for the bulk of the work, and the City of Capitola has agreed to chip in about $28,000.
“We are getting away cheap,” said Council member Michael Termini. “I don’t know if we could have done the contracts and executed the bids, the soft costs, for $30,000.”
Termini added that the project was overdue.
“I drive down by Garden every day,” Termini added. “It really needs it.”
The RDA will finance $248,943 of the work, bringing the total funding for the project to $277,000. That’s more than the estimated cost of repaving all of Capitola’s 46th Avenue. County public works officials said that the RDA planned an additional $77,000 for “inspection, survey, overhead and contingencies.”
In addition to allowing for cost overruns, that includes having the site surveyed and marked by County staff and having a County inspector on site to supervise during each day of construction.
The project should begin in the coming month and take about four weeks to complete. Disruptions to traffic should be limited to minor lane closures.
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