Asphalt Sealcoating in Winneconne, WI
Winneconne is the Winnebago County village where the Wolf River, having passed through Lake Poygan and Lake Winneconne, runs on into Lake Butte des Morts. The 2020 Census counted 2,544 residents, up from 2,383 in 2010, and about a fifth of the village's 1.95 square miles is water. WIS 116 crosses the Wolf River downtown on its way to U.S. 45. This is also the village that staged a mock secession in 1967 after it was left off the official state road map, an event it still marks with Sovereign State Days.
The village public works crew maintains 18.4 miles of roadway and handles its own plowing, salting, crack sealing and patching. From November through March, overnight parking is banned on village streets and lots from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. so the plows can get through, which pushes overnight parking into driveways and garages all winter. Census estimates put the median Winneconne home at 1975, with about one in six built before 1940, so the village has a real mix of older and newer pavement.
Lake-basin clay and a concrete apron rule
The USDA soil series named Winneconne is lake-basin clay, and the 1980 Winnebago County soil survey places Winneconne soils in the county's lake basins and on its terraces. The series formed in clayey lake deposits, averages 60 to 85 percent clay, and is very slowly permeable, with a perched water table 1.5 to 3.5 feet down for a month or more in most years. Pavement over ground like that cannot drain downward. Water that gets through a crack stays in the base until it freezes, the process the old lakebed page walks through for Oshkosh.
Village code shapes the end of every driveway. Chapter 282 requires the apron from the street or curb to the outer edge of the sidewalk, or where a sidewalk would normally go, to be paved with concrete, and it requires a permit to construct, reconstruct, alter or enlarge a private driveway within the dedicated street. Where a street has no curb, the driveway surface must slope down and away from the shoulder so runoff stays off the roadbed. On a driveway built to that rule, the asphalt, and any driveway sealcoating on it, stops where the concrete begins.
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Asphalt Sealcoating Services Available in Winneconne
Every service we offer in Oshkosh is available to Winneconne homeowners and businesses at the same pricing:
- Driveway Sealcoating
- Hot Rubber Crack Filling
- Asphalt Patching and Pothole Repair
- Parking Lot Sealcoating
- Line Striping and Lot Layout
- Asphalt Maintenance Plans
See the full pricing guide for typical ranges.
Winneconne FAQs
Should the concrete apron in front of a Winneconne driveway get sealcoat too?
No. Asphalt sealer is made to bond with asphalt, and on concrete it tends to wear off unevenly and look blotchy. The village requires that apron, from the street or curb to the sidewalk line, to be concrete, so a careful crew masks it and stops the coat at the joint. If an older driveway still has an asphalt apron in the street right-of-way, rebuilding it is work that needs a village permit, applied for through the Clerk-Treasurer or the Director of Public Works.
Who clears the end of a Winneconne driveway after the plow goes by?
The owner. The village's driveway chapter says it takes no responsibility for clearing snow, ice or sleet from the part of a driveway inside the dedicated street, and sidewalks along a property must be cleared within 24 hours after a snowfall ends. How that is done matters to the pavement. Metal blades that ride on the asphalt scrape through sealcoat, and heavy salt at the apron soaks into any open crack. A plastic edge, a blade set slightly high, and sand where traction is the only goal all spare the surface.
Does Winneconne restrict coal-tar sealer?
Not in its village code. A search of the code on its official online host turns up the word tar only in unrelated places, such as the sewer-use rules, and nothing on pavement sealants. At the state level, a 2020 bill to ban coal-tar sealer passed the Assembly without a dissenting vote and then failed in the Senate. That leaves the product choice to the owner and the contractor, so it is worth asking which sealer is going down, and getting its name on the quote, before the work starts.