SANATOGA PA – When will already milled state-owned roads within Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township be re-paved? Sometime during the next two weeks, Manager Rodney Hawthorne reported Thursday (Aug. 18, 2011), and maybe beginning as early as this Sunday (Aug. 21).

Don’t hold your breath, though, waiting for equipment to arrive. The paving dates are tough to pinpoint, Hawthorne acknowledged, because those involved aren’t quite certain what they are.

An uneven pavement sign stands at the East High Street end of North Sanatoga Road. Lower Pottsgrove drivers are awaiting the return of contractors to finish paving there

It’s been more than a week since a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation contractor, Allan A. Myers and American Infrastructure, brought its work crews across North Sanatoga Road, from East High Street to North Pleasant View Road; Bleim Road, from North Pleasant View west to North Charlotte Street; and Maugers Mill Road, form North Charlotte Street to Gilbertsville Road.

Those roads were closed over several nights as milling machinery ground down and removed a layer of asphalt to prepare for their re-paving. Once done, uneven pavement signs were posted at both ends of each road. Nothing’s happened with them since.

Township crews earlier this week created small asphalt slopes around manhole covers on the roads to make driving them less jarring, Hawthorne said.

He’s confident the roads will be topped, as well as portions of East High Street from Rupert Road west to North Pleasant View. A call this week from a Myers representative confirmed as much, Hawthorne added. The mystery is exactly when.

Until then, motorists are urged to drive slowly and carefully in the affected areas.

Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ meeting of Aug. 18):

• Road Re-Paving Is Coming; Just When Anybody’s Guess
• Township, An Unhappy Bank Customer, Goes Elsewhere
• Township May Put Money Where Authority’s Mouth Is