All phases of the road reconstruction are inspected by county personnel for contract and design compliance. There are also 34 bridges along county roads which are inspected annually to look for deterioration, undermining, or other potential problems. The Road Department works in coordination with the Department of Community Development to review and approve drainage plans for residential and commercial building permits, subdivisions, large developments, and also for small land divisions in order to minimize the impacts of storm water runoff associated with these developments. All new driveways accessing county roads must have their locations approved by the Road Department. Through a permit process, a proposed driveway site is inspected, and culvert, grade, backfill materials, and surface material requirements are determined.
Franchises are another area of responsibility.
A franchise may be required when running sewer, water, telephone, telecable or electrical lines along a county right of way. This enables the road to become a County maintained public road. The improvement of such a road is paid for by an assessment on the lots, tracts, or parcels specially benefited by the improvement. The actual improvement to the road is done with county crews or by contract, depending upon the situation. It also produces and stores large quantities of gravel and rock products in ten gravel pits located across the County.