At its Dec. 3 meeting, the Fernley City Council approved the emergency repair of a 38-foot stretch of the northbound lane of Farm District Road, between Jenny’s Lane and the roundabout, to temporarily repair an area of subsidence, which is the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land.
Under the emergency repair, to be undertaken before the end of December, a 38-foot by 7-foot section of the roadway will be replaced with six inches of asphalt as a temporary fix to get through the winter, with more extensive repairs planned for next spring to include replacing the base and the asphalt, according to Kiera Italiano, a project manager in the city’s engineering department.
The city was notified of the subsidence by the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) in October, resulting in a temporary asphalt patch being placed over the area. However, NDOT informed the city the patch may not survive the winter, resulting in the need for the emergency repair, a city staff report noted.
Although Farm District Road is owned by NDOT, the section in need of repair had previously been under a City of Fernley work permit for the lift station near Jenny’s Lane, thereby placing maintenance responsibility on the City.
Staff sought proposals from Sierra Nevada Construction, Inc., A & K Earthmovers, Inc., Granite Construction and Q & D Construction, with Sierra Nevada Construction, Inc. being the only company to respond at a cost of $38,857, according to the staff report.
The area of subsidence is much larger and deeper than the typical pothole, more than 10 inches deep, according to the NDOT inspector working with the city on the issue, Italiano said.
“Next spring, a more extensive removal will be completed to address the underlying conditions” that caused the collapse, she said.
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