Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC) was assigned by the City of Great Bend to create a digital map of street conditions. The $50,000 project outlines service line locations underneath the streets and also what repairs are needed in the future.
Judging the city streets as a whole, PEC engineer Ben Mabry told the Great Bend City Council that the rating is in the middle of the pack.
While the conditions for every street in town were rated, the assessment was made upon a surface evaluation.
“You are not going to find everything, there may be some potholes,” said Mabry. “To get a 100% accurate representation of the pavement, you would have to go core every street. We did not have the budget to do that for every street.”
(Read more: Great Bend Post)
