Resurfacing cracked roadway pavement around manholes is a routine item in the Perry Public Works Department’s ongoing schedule of street improvements, and Wednesday morning found a city crew at the task on Lucinda Street next to the PHS football field.
“This one was sunk about three inches,” said Perry Public Works Department staffer Matt “Fizz” Van Pelt. “It’s the kind people driving by swerve to avoid, and it’s one you always feel when running the snowplow.”
Fellow city workers Mike Landals and Jose Arceo joined Van Pelt on the project, which involved breaking up and replacing the pavement.
“When they get broken up like that, we try to bust them out of there,” Perry Public Works Department Jack Butler said. “The concrete gets broken up around it, and next thing you know that manhole starts to move. You drive over it, and it just rattles, and then if it rains and it’s a low spot in the road, then it takes in all the water.”
Butler said the city repairs about a dozen such spots in city streets each year.
