Asphalt Paving in Waterbury, CT

Asphalt paving in Waterbury is hillside work more often than not. The city sits in the Naugatuck River valley, with streams flowing down from the hills on both sides, and its ground rises from about 220 feet at the river to about 820 feet at its high point. Many of Waterbury's 25 neighborhoods are named for the terrain: Bunker Hill, Town Plot, Bucks Hill, Washington Hill, Overlook, Hillside. With 114,403 residents counted in 2020 on about 28.5 square miles, it is also a dense city, with plenty of multi-family homes and small, tight lots.

What the hills mean for a driveway

On a sloped driveway, water is the problem to solve first. Storm runoff from the street or from uphill properties runs down the pavement, finds the weakest edge and washes it out, or ends up against the garage door. We plan where that water goes before we plan anything else: crowning or cross-sloping the surface, adding an asphalt berm along the edge that carries runoff, and installing a trench drain at the bottom when a garage sits below the street.

Old brass-era housing

Waterbury became the leading center for brassware in the United States, and the mills of Scovill, Anaconda American Brass and Chase Brass and Copper once covered more than 2 million square feet across 90-plus buildings. About 10,000 people worked at Scovill alone during World War II. The housing built for that workforce, much of it multi-family on narrow lots, still makes up large parts of the city. Those properties often have shared driveways, rear parking areas for several cars, and surfaces that have been patched for decades.

Multi-family parking

A three- or four-unit house with parking for every tenant is really a small parking lot. Cars come and go all day, turn in place and park in the same spots. We build those areas with a thicker section than a single-family driveway, lay them out so cars can turn without backing into the street, and keep water away from foundations.

Winters

The average January low is about 15 degrees and the average high about 35, with about 53.6 inches of precipitation a year. Snow, sleet and rain that freeze and thaw on a slope are hard on asphalt. Crack sealing each fall and sealcoating every few years are the best defense.

The highways

Interstate 84 and Route 8 meet downtown on the elevated William W. Deady Bridge, the MixMaster. Route 8 is a state highway, and Connecticut DOT regulates work in state highway rights-of-way, including driveways, through district encroachment permits. For driveways on city streets, we confirm the City of Waterbury's current requirements before any work at the curb or apron.

Common Waterbury jobs

• Steep driveway replacement with drainage and berm edging
• Multi-family rear lots and shared driveways
• Overlays where the base is still solid
• Pothole, edge and trench repairs
• Sealcoating and crack sealing

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