Asset Management Plan - Newcastle City Council

Carriageways Life Cycle Plan14.6 Option Appraisal14.6.1 Routine MaintenanceRoutine Maintenance is the regular ongoing day-to-day work that comprisesservicing rather than repair and is necessary to keep assets operating, this alsocovers the reactive or adhoc repair or renewal of small elements or componentswhich have become unserviceable due to general wear and tear or havedeteriorated for other reasons. Routine maintenance activities for carriagewaysare detailed in table 14.6.1.Table 14.6.1 Routine Maintenance ActivitiesMaintenance Activity Maintenance Interval ResponsibilityCyclic MaintenanceGully Cleaning Annually Environmental ServicesStreet Sweeping Weekly Environmental ServicesLitter PickingInspected Weekly, litter pick Environmental Servicesordered as required.Sign Cleaning Adhoc basis only Environmental ServicesReactive (Adhoc) MaintenancePothole Repair As required Street Management TeamMinor Patching As required Street Management TeamIsolated kerb relay As required Street Management TeamGully Repair As required Street Management TeamCleaning of safeticurb, pipes,manholes, soakaways etc.As requiredEnvironmental ServicesStreet Management TeamRemoval of Debris As required Environmental ServicesEmergency Call Out As required Street Management TeamRoad Marking replacement As required Street Management TeamThere are approximately 44,500 highway gullies within Newcastle previously thegully cleaning regime has been undertaken as a reactive maintenance followingreports of a blockage, of those sites reported approximately 60% have beensuccessfully rectified with one visit, of the other 40% some are passed on to theStreet Management Team for further works, but many are unable to be accesseddue to the prevalence of parked vehicles. A new specification for gullymaintenance is currently being prepared and will be available early 2007.14.6.2 Renewal/ReplacementRenewal/replacement work is majorplanned (programmed) work that doesnot increase the asset’s designedcapacity, but restores, rehabilitates,replaces or renews an existing assetto its original capacity. (Maintaining a‘Steady State’) Table 14.6.2 details anumber of ‘Steady State’ activitiestheir relative merits and their expectedprogramme intervals.104