The temperature window for major road work involving pavement will close in the coming month or so when highs drop into the 50s.

By then the City of Manteca will have completed four major street projects and partially completed another.

The projects that will be finished in the coming two months are:

*Louise Avenue from Main Street to a point east of the Highway 99 overcrossing.

*Lathrop Road from Union Road to Main Street.

*The neighborhoods bounded by Yosemite Avenue on the north, Spreckels Avenue on the east , Moffat Boulevard on the south and Main Street on the west.

Center Street west of Union Road is completed while Speckels Avenue is partially completed.

 They represent an overall cost of roughly $5 million.

The City Council will be updated when they meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. about those projects.

They also will be informed of the cost of seven other projects they identified as top priorities in April.

The overall cost is $29.7 million.

Those projects and their individual costs are:

*$800,000 for Wawona Street from Union Road to Locust Avenue.

*$600,000 for Mission Ridge Drive/Industrial Park Drive from Tahoe Street to Vanderbilt Circle.

*$5,500,000 for Woodward Avenue from Main Street to Pillsbury Road.

*$4,500,000 for Yosemite Avenue from Airport Way west to the rail crossing by the ACE station.
*$8,000,000 for the Shasta Park area bounded by Main Street, Louise Avenue, Edison Street, and Highway 99.

*$7,000,000 for the Cotta Park area bounded by Union Road, Wawona Street, Main Street, and the 120 Bypass.

*$2,500,000 for the Union West Park area bounded by Grand Prix Avenue, Mercedes Avenue, Wawona Street, Union Road, and Yosemite Avenue.

Funding has not been identified for the aforementioned projects.

The list includes just the priority projects.

Other segments of streets have been identified as being in need of repair.

The city, in a typical year, has only $2.5 million available for street maintenance projects.

Manteca was able to do more work this year due to securing competitive grants that aren’t always available.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com