Gwinnett County and the Georgia Department of Transportation are jointly funding a contract to resurface county roads.

Every year Gwinnett Transportation employees document roads in need of resurfacing. With nearly 2,700 centerline miles of roadway, it takes close to 30 months for staff members to assess pavement conditions on all the County-maintained roads. Gwinnett will resurface just over 108 centerline miles of roadway this year.

Resurfacing studies show that maintaining roadway pavement reduces costs over time. Funds spent on resurfacing cut down on spending to patch or completely rebuild a roadway.

The $28.1 million contract is funded 75 percent by the County’s 2017 SPLOST program and 25 percent by the Georgia Department of Transportation.