Why asphalt paving is needed in Ripon
Ripon's highway service corridor was built for trucks, and trucks are hardest on a surface. The City records two major auto and truck travel plazas, with fast-food restaurants and motels added at the Jack Tone Road interchange, which it describes as designed to serve large volumes of traffic and especially trucks, on a stretch of State Route 99 carrying about 139,000 vehicles a day. Caltrans' overlay guidance rules open-graded surfaces out of severe turning areas and fuel or oil spill areas for this reason.
The freeway and the railroad cut the city, so traffic funnels through three points. North-south movement crosses on Main Street, Fulton Avenue with northbound access only, and the Jack Tone Road interchange, and State Route 99 itself carries 114,000 vehicles a day at Main Street. Lots near those crossings take concentrated turning traffic, and they are also the lots where a closure is hardest to detour around, so the phasing plan is settled before any date is agreed.
A two-hour downpour has already found Ripon's low points and named them. A storm beginning at 5 p.m. dropped two and a half inches in two hours, popped manhole covers and left cars stalled with water halfway up their doors; the spots reported were Acacia and Milgeo avenues, Canal Street east of Jack Tone Road, Doak Boulevard, Avenue A near Ripona School and Wilma Avenue at Fourth Street. Caltrans' crack guidance traces that water straight into the base.
Water leaves a Ripon lot four different ways, and only one of them is a public storm sewer. Runoff from the older industrial area west of the freeway goes into industrial sewer lines, part of the city is pumped into SSJID lines and canals, the largest share runs by gravity through seven outfalls into the Stanislaus River, and the Jack Tone commercial area drains to a detention pond. The normals put almost all of that water into the winter half.
Older commercial blocks are where a restripe changes more than the paint. A 2009 survey of a portion of Ripon's older areas found 374 of 644 parcels showing signs of structural dilapidation or deterioration, and lots of that age were usually laid out before the current accessible parking dimensions. The ADA.gov restriping brief brings those spaces into the job, counted for each parking facility on the site.
About 31 percent of Ripon's homes, 1,577 of them, were built between 2000 and 2009, the city's busiest decade, and the median year built is 1990. Lots laid with that generation of housing are now at the age when a first seal is worth more than a later rebuild.
Asphalt paving, as delivered in Ripon
Ripon is 11 road miles north of the Modesto base on Highway 99, over the Stanislaus River. The marked lot plan from the first visit is what every later measurement and photograph is added to.
The request arrives with the service and the city filled in, and a site visit is arranged with the paving contractor assigned to it. The lot is walked with the owner or manager, noting how vehicles reach it, where trucks turn and the hours it is busiest. Site visit scheduled at a time that suits you. Start date set in the written estimate.
Each distress goes on the plan by type: alligator, longitudinal, transverse and block cracking, potholes, raveling and oil spots, with the low spots that hold water and whichever of the city's four drainage routes the lot uses. Accessible stalls and aisles are measured against Chapter 11B and the surface is rated on site.
One treatment follows: crack treatment and seal, repair and seal, grind and overlay, or reconstruction. Permits go through the City of Ripon Building Department at 259 North Wilma Avenue, with heavy commercial plans sent out for review.
Line items by area and length, repair kept apart from the surface work, and the basis of the figure stated in the estimate.
A travel plaza never really closes and a food plant runs to season, so the lot is phased in sections with one route in and one out open throughout. Irrigation is off five business days before a seal, accessible stalls go back first, and nothing is placed with rain forecast during curing.
Saw cuts two inches to a true line, digouts tack coated and filled with hot mix, cracks treated and cured, oil spots primed and drain inlets covered.
Handover is the marked plan, the stall and aisle measurements against Chapter 11B, before and after photographs of each area, the product data sheets for what was placed and the warranty terms.
Where asphalt paving is needed in Ripon
Ripon's paving runs from a brick main street to freeway truck plazas, a river-side industrial district and 2000s tracts.
Downtown Main Street
The historic commercial core, with the two-story Riddle and Odd Fellows buildings, the Bank of Ripon at Main and Stockton and the Markham Hotel. Parking here is small rear lots and kerbside bays, and the alley approaches take the delivery traffic the street cannot.
The 1910s and 1920s streets south of Main
Stockton, Walnut, Locust, Elm, Orange, Palm and Acacia streets, largely bungalows with some Mission and Classical Revival types, and Queen Anne and Italianate cottages near the depot. Driveways and shared courts here date from before kerb and gutter were standard.
The South Stockton Avenue industrial district
A planning district of 533 acres including 237 designated Heavy Industry, holding most of the city's industrial uses, among them a pet food plant on a site bounded by the freeway and the river. Plant yards here carry loaded trucks on sections that fail at the wheel paths.
The former paper mill site by the river
Where a mill opened in 1965, passed through two owners and closed permanently in 2009 after producing about 35,000 tons of paper a year. Large legacy industrial pavement of that age is usually beyond sealing and is dealt with by reconstruction in sections.
The Stanislaus River corridor and the Vera district
The river is the city's southern boundary and its only FEMA 100-year flood zone, with treatment ponds in the south of the district behind levees. Access roads and yards near a levee are surveyed for base loss after any period of high water.
Jack Tone Road and the highway service corridor
Two major auto and truck travel plazas, with fast-food restaurants and motels, on a stretch of freeway carrying about 139,000 vehicles a day, draining to a detention pond. Fuel islands and truck parking concentrate standing loads and spillage in one part of each lot.
The North Pointe plan area
310 acres bounded by Mistlin Sports Park, Fulton Avenue, the freeway frontage road and Jack Tone Road, holding orchards, food processing plants, trucking yards, a light industrial park and highway commercial. An 800-foot at-grade concrete SSJID canal section runs along Fulton Avenue.
The Ripona planning district
146 acres including 42 designated Urban Core, with the properties south of Milgeo Road built out. In the October downpour two vehicles were stranded at Acacia and Milgeo avenues and flood water closed off Avenue A near Ripona School.
Wilma Avenue and the North Wilma district
270 acres north of West Main Street, including a 53-acre high school site, a 20-acre elementary site and 19 acres of community commercial, with City Hall at 259 North Wilma. Crews barricaded Wilma at Fourth Street in the October storm and water reached front doors on the 600 block.
Doak Boulevard and the southern edge
A two-lane collector along the south boundary, with a landscaped median from Mohler Road to Vera Avenue and turn lanes through the industrial districts. At least three storm manholes were forced out of the roadway here in the October storm.
West Main Street and the South Jack Tone district
437 acres between West Main Street, the river, Robert Avenue and South Highland Road, with 266 acres of low density residential and 104 of commercial recreation, plus apartment groups along West Main. Shared resident parking here carries the visitor accessible spaces.
The 2000s subdivisions
Chesapeake Landing, Brookline Estates, Montecito Estates, Palm Grove Estates, Poppy Hill Estates, Seven Oaks and Cornerstone, built between 2003 and 2008. Their common areas and visitor bays are on their original surface and are now at the age for a first treatment.
Asphalt paving sub-services available in Ripon
Questions from Ripon property owners and managers
The City of Ripon Building Department at 259 North Wilma Avenue, which handles plan review, permits and inspections inside the city and takes applications through its online permit centre. Residential and light commercial plans are checked by City staff, while heavy commercial and industrial plans go out to professional plan check services, so an industrial yard's paperwork takes a different route. The contractor the request is handed to pulls the permit where one is needed.
Because the water came from the sky faster than the pipes could take it. Two and a half inches fell here in two hours in one recorded storm, popping manhole covers and leaving water halfway up car doors, with Acacia and Milgeo avenues, Canal Street, Doak Boulevard and Wilma Avenue among the worst spots. The city's only FEMA 100-year zone follows the river. On a lot, the answer is closing the cracks and taking out the low spots so the water leaves rather than soaks in; where the fall itself is wrong, the fall is corrected first.
April to October. The City puts about 13 inches of rain on the town a year with some 85 percent of it between October and March, and the normals station used here gives 2.57 inches in January against nothing in July. Surface temperatures in the dry months stay above the minimums hot mix, seals and paint need on most days. In the wet months rain during the curing period rules a seal out and a patch is treated as temporary.
Yes, by working in sections. The plan keeps one route in and one out open throughout, restores the accessible stalls first and closes each section in turn. Caltrans holds traffic off a fresh parking area seal for at least 24 hours and does not allow striping over it until it is dry, so no section is available immediately after placing. On a site with fuel islands the phasing is set around the delivery and tank schedule as well.
It changes the sequencing. Part of Ripon's storm runoff is pumped into district lines and canals, and an 800-foot at-grade concrete section runs along Fulton Avenue at the edge of the North Pointe area, so what happens in the canal affects where a lot's water goes. Caltrans also requires irrigation off at least five business days before a parking area seal and no watering of adjacent plants for 24 hours either side, which is arranged before the crew is scheduled.
Because the repair was probably a surface one over a failure lower down. Interlocking cracking in a wheel path is structural, usually a weak or wet base, and crack sealing does not treat it; where the severity is medium or high the recommendation is a digout. On a Ripon yard over sandy loam with good percolation, water that got in through an open crack has often softened the material below long before the top gave way, so the repair has to go full depth.
Asphalt paving near Ripon
