The Moraga Town Council passed a measure approving the 2025 and 2026 Street Rehabilitation Project (CIP 25-401, CIP 26-401) during its May 27 meeting.  In doing so, a construction contract not to exceed $1,769,908 was awarded to Bay Cities Paving & Grading, Inc. of Concord, Calif.  The project will involve several of the Town’s main roadways.

    A staff report by Director of Public Works/Town Engineer Nate Levine, Assistant Engineer Yao Miao, and Engineering Technician Jared Kerr noted that combining the 2025 project with the 2026 project “into a single construction contract was intended to reduce mobilization costs, improve unit pricing through larger bid quantities, coordinate construction more efficiently, and deliver the planned street rehabilitation work during the 2026 construction season.”

    The Project will include the following five street segments that have been recommended for rehabilitation:  Augusta Drive (St. Andrews Drive to Spyglass Drive), Rheem Boulevard (264 Rheem Blvd. to 276 Rheem Blvd.), Moraga Road (St. Mary’s Road to Moraga Way), Canyon Road (Moraga Way to Country Club Drive), and Wakefield Drive (22 Wakefield Dr. to Corliss Drive).

    The Augusta Drive, Moraga Road, and Canyon Road segments of planned treatment will consist of 3-inch Partial Depth Recycling (PDR) with 1.5-inch Mill & Overlay (M&O).  The PDR will require “digging down about 6 inches and using some of the existing asphalt material to form a new base material, and then you put asphalt on top of that,” explained Levine. “It’s a really nice, robust, and cost-effective repair.” M&O uses heavy machinery that grinds and removes the top 1.5 to 2 inches of existing asphalt, preventing the new layer from raising the surface level.  Fresh hot-mix asphalt is then laid down, graded to a smooth finish, and compacted using heavy rollers.

    The Rheem Boulevard project’s planned treatment will entail shoulder stabilization only, and Wakefield Drive will not involve any PDR, but will go through a 1.5-inch M&O.

    The Project went out to bid in April 2026, with an Engineer’s Estimate of $2,138,062.  Of the five received bids, Bay Cities came in the lowest. The family-owned business was founded in 1946, and has completed similar projects for several local municipalities including Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, Martinez, Pittsburg, and Orinda.

    The Town intends to notify affected residents and property owners before construction begins, which is expected to commence in June or July 2026, pending contract execution, contractor scheduling, submittal review, and coordination with related work.