LOGAN — On KVNU’s monthly Speak to the Mayor program on Wednesday, Logan City Mayor Holly Daines said the city has recently updated its Transportation Master Plan, which is done about every ten years.
She said the draft will be sent to the planning commission in April, with opportunities for citizens to make comments at public hearings before the commission. Daines said one thing she took note of, as she read through the report, was the condition of city roads.
“They have done as part of this plan, a Pavement Assessment report. Approximately 60 percent of the roadways in the city were assessed as in Satisfactory or Good condition, 21 percent were in Fair condition and the remaining 19 percent were in Poor condition. So, we know we have some work cut out, but when you look at the overall diagram, I was pretty pleased that 60 percent was in Good or Satisfactory condition,” the mayor explained.
She said that is good news when compared to other Utah cities, such as Salt Lake City, where a good part of their roads are reportedly in bad shape.
Construction continues on major city projects such as the Center Block Plaza and the new Logan Library building.
“It’s coming together, and it’s looking nice, but it has been…we have a lot of construction projects going and it’s been a rough winter just to try and stay on schedule with various construction projects. Our Center Block project that we hoped to have finished by mid-May, we just pushed it back, it’s going to be probably mid to the end of June, if we finally get it to dry out and warm up a little bit.”
When it comes to the prospect of future flooding, the city has prepared with 15,000 sand bags filled and stacked on pallets, ready if they’re needed.
One area they are watching is the head works that goes into the new water treatment facility. Daines feels they are in much better shape than they were with flooding several years ago when they had an issue with some of the pumps at the lagoons.
“And that’s one of our fail safe, and one reason we didn’t have to build the water treatment plant as large as was initially planned, is because we can put the overflow into the lagoons and simply keep them there until we can kind of gradually process the water through the water treatment plant. So, that’s a good set-up and…again, we have sandbags there if needed if we start to get a big rain event or something that really brings a lot of water in quickly.”
She said if history proves true the Logan River won’t peak until late May/early June, so there’s still time.