Brevard County runs seventy miles down the coast with the Indian and Banana Rivers running through the middle of it. Almost every property here is within reach of salt air, and the aerospace and defence economy adds heavy industrial pavement demands that most coastal counties do not have.
Salt is a constant, not an occasional factor
On Merritt Island particularly, with brackish water on both sides, salt exposure is continuous. That accelerates surface abrasion, corrodes every piece of metal in and around the pavement, and makes sealcoating a genuinely protective measure rather than a cosmetic one.
Industrial and institutional loads
The facilities along the coast carry loaded truck traffic, heavy equipment moves and long-duration static loads. Those areas need a specification that residential and retail work does not — deeper base, thicker surface, and particular attention to the turning areas where failures concentrate.
Building a truck route to parking-lot specification is a decision that shows up within two seasons.
Drainage and the water table
Much of Brevard sits low with a high water table, which limits what the base can do and makes drainage design more consequential than it is inland. Water that cannot get away has nowhere to go but into the pavement structure.
- Grade for a genuine 1–2% fall rather than the minimum that will technically pass.
- Keep drainage structures clear — a blocked grate turns a designed system into a pond.
- Watch for edge failure where pavement meets soft shoulder, which is where high water tables show first.
- Photograph the property after a heavy storm and note where water stands.
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