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Quincy paving job only half-done.

The repaving of Sturtevant Road, a relatively tony street in Quincy’s Presidents Hill neighborhood, is but half done with the first snowfall of the year forecast to hit the Q tomorrow.

A base binder coat was laid down late last week on a day when temperatures were at least close to the minimum recommended ambient air temperature for laying asphalt. 

Accordingly, one can now only wonder if work will now continue to completion four weeks after the usual mid-November shutdown of asphalt plants given cold weather other than to make asphalt for emergency repairs.

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After all, not only is paving a dicey proposition during the winter as laying asphalt during cold weather tends to result in less to much less long-lived pavement, asphalt made during the winter also entails higher energy costs.

Given the expectations of the impacted residents, however, one can only assume that a top-coating will be completed this year rather than wait until warm weather returns next spring and thus a more likely to be longer to much longer-lived top coat could be laid.

Additionally, be sure to note that Quincy Quarry plans to investigate reports of other also ongoing city street repaving work in the Quincy Point areas as well as will be looking about elsewhere on the mean and now ever-increasingly cold streets of the Q to see if any other repaving work elsewhere in the Q might also be running late.

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