New Mexico Highway 344 will likely see some construction this summer as crews work on a hot-in-place pavement recycling project with an estimated price tag of $1.2 million.
This is one of the projects that was included in a presentation the New Mexico Department of Transportation District 5 Engineer Rhonda Lopez gave to state lawmakers on Thursday during an interim Transportation Infrastructure Revenue subcommittee meeting in Santa Fe.
District 5 encompasses six counties including Torrance and Santa Fe.
The department received the funding for the Highway 344 project during this year’s legislative session.
“Once the funding becomes available on July the first, the district is planning for three maintenance projects, as well as utilizing some of the funding for striping and fill supplies and our field supplies, that’s stuff that we use for [things] like attenuators, guardrail. Also, it helps us get our cinders for snow removal during the winter,” Lopez said.
In addition to the Highway 344 project, the other maintenance projects Lopez mentioned are a hot-in-place pavement recycling and microsurfacing project with an estimated price tag of $4 million in San Juan County on New Mexico Highway 511 and another hot-in-place pavement recycling project that also includes wearing course overlay on New Mexico Highway 4 from milemarker 61 to milemarker 68, which will cost about $3.3 million.
Lopez also provided an overview of projects that are considered contract maintenance. In the East Mountains, that includes a $1 million project that involves hot-in-place pavement recycling and chip sealing on New Mexico Highway 333 in Torrance and Santa Fe counties.