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Road Department

Departmental Mission:  It is the mission of the road department to provide and improve the road infrastructure of Lea County. It is the road department's main goal to provide this service in a safer and more economical method while achieving a better quality of road for the citizenry and visitors of Lea County.

Departmental Goals:  The department's goals include maintenance chip sealing of a minimum of 110 miles of existing hard surface road each year, shoulder roadway, patch holes, mow, and sign roadways. The Road Department also strives to chip seal at least 15 miles of caliche roadway while rebuilding or rehabilitating 35 miles of roadway each year. Approximately 64 cattle guards are repaired or replaced each year.

Departmental Strategy: County crews will perform all chip sealing operations, shouldering, pothole patching, signing, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and cattle guard repair and replacement. A private contractor will perform mowing of County roads. Additional money is requested this year to accommodate two mowing cycles rather than one time in the year.

Departmental Objectives: Chip sealing operations will start early this year due to warmer than normal temperatures, permitting a longer chip seal season. Grant funding will be utilized to cover costs of 17 miles of maintenance chip sealing and 16 miles of caliche roads to be chip sealed. Grant money will also cover the costs of approximately 7 (seven) 32' wide cattle guards to continue the rehabilitation project and the costs of 2 miles of roadway, which is to be constructed by a private contractor. More economically feasible asphalt will be purchased by Lea County to perform 100 miles of maintenance chip sealing. Rock will be purchased from a private contractor, as it has been done in the last three years, to lower the costs of this type of construction. The roadways to be reconstructed will be completed using caliche that is from the Bureau of Land Management pits or County owned pits, thus insuring the Road Department's goals to provide this service as economically as possible.