Dayton Gets Grant

DAYTON - The City of Dayton has received a grant to chip seal a few city streets to maintain road conditions for years to come.

Trina Cole, the city's clerk/ treasurer, said the city will receive $69,621 to chip seal five different streets. The city will also contribute $3,644 for the project slated to take place in 2012. The grant is from the Transportation Improvement Board through a Small City Pavement Preservation program. Cole said she learned the city received the grant money on Monday.

She said the city has received this grant before for street improvements in 2007.

Chip sealing is a street treatment that is made up of layers of asphalt and fine gravel and protects the street from oxidization and deterioration from moisture and UV rays from sunlight, Cole said. The treatment is cost-effective and will preserve the pavement for years.

The streets that will get a new layer of chip seal are North Pine Street, South Cottonwood Street, South Willow Street, West Clay Street and West Spring Street.

The city applied for the grant in July 2011 and picked these streets based on a rating system that is used to determine eligibility for grants and because these streets had not had any improvement or preservation work recently, she said.