Sentence examples for backlog of maintenance from inspiring English sources

States did have a backlog of maintenance projects, such as repaving dilapidated roads.

His worst nightmare is that there is a growing backlog of maintenance work as oil companies cut spending, which could affect safety.

He will need to clear up the backlog of maintenance projects and address the sad fact that it is now legal to carry guns in parks.

We will take action to fix the backlog of maintenance, which has left road surfaces in communities up and down the country crumbling.

First, RFF has taken on huge debts in building the country's impressive high-speed rail network, while letting a big backlog of maintenance build up on local lines.

After spending two years and $2.9 billion trying to catch up with a large backlog of maintenance work in the nation's parks, the Department of the Interior says it still does not know how much is left to be done.

America has a $2 trillion backlog of infrastructure maintenance that must be undertaken sooner or later.

"The Department of Energy has allowed its nuclear-weapons production plants to degrade over time, leaving a tremendous backlog of deferred maintenance and modernization," he said.

Right now the backlog of unmet maintenance and construction needs — repairs to crumbling bridges, roads, buildings, trails, sewer systems — exceeds $8 billion.

Mr. Bush said the spending was too focused on converting more and more private land into public parks and that, as a result, there was a roughly $5 billion backlog of necessary maintenance work in parks.

The construction in Harriman is part of a push to address the backlog of deferred maintenance and infrastructure projects across New York's state parks, which last spring received an infusion of $89 million from the governor and the Legislature for capital improvements.