MDOT to start chip seal work around Central Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi Division of Transportation (MDOT) crews will start chip seal work on roads round Central Mississippi on Monday, Could 16.

Chip seal is a skinny movie of heated asphalt liquid that’s sprayed on the highway floor. Small stone chips are then positioned on the highway and compacted. Extra stone is swept away. MDOT leaders mentioned chip seal improves and maintains the freeway system.

Chip seal work will start on Could 16 on the next routes:

• Leake County – 14.5 miles of State Route 488 from State Route 35 to the Neshoba County line. Will take about 5 days.
• Leake County – 0.6 miles of State Route 502 from the beginning of state upkeep to SR 488. Will take about at some point.
• Leake County – 4.8 miles of State Route 500 from one mile north of State Route 13 to State Route 487. Will take about two days.
• Scott County – 16.9 miles of State Route 13 from the Leake County line to 2.2 miles north of State Route 481. Will take about six days.
• Scott County – 10 miles of SR 481 south from the Morton metropolis limits to the Smith County line. Will take about 4 days.
• Rankin County – 1.4 miles of State Route 481 from the Scott County line to State Route 43. Will take about at some point.
• Rankin County – 3.9 miles of SR 13 from State Route 18 to the Smith County line. Will take about two days.
• Rankin County – 1.4 miles of State Route 541 from the Simpson County line to SR 18. Will take about at some point.

MDOT leaders mentioned flagmen might be on website to direct site visitors. Drivers must be ready to cease and count on delays. There is likely to be free supplies on the roadway for a number of days after the sealing work.

Drivers are requested to decelerate, concentrate and plan an alternate route, if attainable.