Driveway Repair in Bethany, OK, from SNU to Lake Overholser

Bethany was founded in 1909 by members of the Church of the Nazarene and quickly established the school that is now Southern Nazarene University. An F4 tornado struck the town on November 19, 1930, destroying 652 buildings, and recovery was slow until World War II, when defense industries brought workers who made Bethany a bedroom community for Oklahoma City. Much of its housing comes from that wartime and postwar period. Many older lots have a long, narrow concrete drive running alongside the house to a detached garage at the back, and those drives have more joints, more edges and more panels than a short suburban drive, each one a place for water to get in.

Those older drives tend to fail along their length rather than at one spot. Edge panels crack where they were poured thin, joints between the many short panels have lost their filler, and the section beside the house drops where it sits over backfill from the foundation. Replacing the worst panels with dowels and sealing every joint keeps a long drive in service for years longer than leaving it. When a full replacement makes sense, a narrow ribbon drive is a modest square footage, so the cost is lower than people expect.

Around Southern Nazarene University and Southwestern Christian University, a large share of homes are rentals: 46.2% of occupied units citywide in 2020. We send landlords and managers a written scope with photos and schedule between tenants. On the west side, Bethany runs up against Lake Overholser and the Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge, where the ground is lower and drains more slowly, so drainage gets a look on every estimate. Bethany issues its own permits for work in the right-of-way, including along the 39th Street Expressway, and we confirm them before any approach work.