Secondary Roads will concentrate on bridge repair
Comments (...)If the Jasper County Secondary Roads Department has a theme for each year’s construction schedule, next fiscal year’s theme would be bridge repair.
Jasper County Engineer Russ Stutt told the supervisors Tuesday during the presentation of the Five-Year Road Plan, that there are no large overlay projects scheduled for fiscal year 2012-2013, but crews will be more focused on replacing the county’s crumbling bridges with culverts wherever possible. The other main focus will be on shaping and maintaining the area’s gravel roads.
The other major project, the Van Zante Bridge on South 124th Avenue East, is currently in the fiscal year 2014 schedule. Stutt said he is working with bridge designers on a layout, and preliminary hydraulics are being performed now. The problem has always been the high cost of replacing the bridge, an estimated $1.3 million, coupled with the low traffic count. The bridge currently is embargoed at 3 tons.
Jim Magnuson, general manager of Key Cooperative, told the supervisors that his company’s crane loading terminal in the industrial park near the biodiesel plant came on line in December 2010. The terminal could handle 3 million bushels of grain per year, with much of the company’s farm traffic coming from Highway T12 north as far as Haverhill. He urged the supervisors to consider paving North 39th Avenue East, which skirts the north side of the biodiesel plant and connects to T12.
The project currently is scheduled for work in fiscal year 2016.
Here is a list of the projects on this year’s five-year road plan for the county. Stutt said the shorter plan compared to previous plans is a reflection of the department’s attempt to be more realistic with what can be achieved during a construction season.
• County Road S6G, bridge replacement over Prairie Creek. $228,000 farm-to-market and federal funds. Stutt said this project should begin in early April and should not take a considerable amount of time to complete.
FY 2013 (begins July 1, 2012)
• Monarch Avenue over Carson Creek, bridge replacement with salvaged steel beams, $280,000, local and federal funds.
• West 68th Street South, from F48 south .5 miles, profile and alignment adjustment, $70,000 local funds.
• South 80th Avenue East over small creek, replace bridge with corrugated pipe, $30,000 local funds.
• South 68th Avenue West, over small stream, county crew to replace bridge with corrugated pipe, $30,000 local funds.
• West 100th Street North, over small stream, replace bridge with culvert, $30,000 local funds.
• North 115th Avenue East, over small stream, county crew to replace bridge with corrugated pipe, $30,000 local funds.
• West 129th Street South, over small stream, county crew to replace bridge with corrugated pipe, $30,000 local funds.
• North 59th Avenue West, over small stream, replace bridge with corrugated pipe, $30,000 local funds.
• East 8th Street South, over small stream, replace bridge with pipe, $30,000 local funds.
• South 52nd Avenue East, over Sugar Creek, construct new bridge, $300,000 local and federal funding.
• East 84th Street South over Prairie Creek, new bridge using salvaged beams, $82,000 local funds.
• South 52nd Avenue West, over Squaw Creek, bridge repair, $80,000 local funds.
• North 99th Avenue East, over Rock Creek, replace bridge using salvaged beams, $82,000 local funds.
• North 75th Avenue East, over Rock Creek, bridge replacement, $82,000 local funds.
Fiscal Year 2014
• Highway T38South, from I-80 south 3 miles, crack and seat with five inch hot mix asphalt overlay, $2 million, farm-to-market and federal funds.
• South 28th Avenue East, and East 68th Street South 3.75 miles to County Road T22, seal coat application, $100,000 local funds.
• South 128th Avenue West over Prairie Creek, bridge replacement, $82,000 local funds.
• South 126th Avenue East over South Skunk River, bridge replacement, $1.8 million, local and federal funds.
Fiscal Year 2015
• Highway T12 North, over North Skunk River, deck rehabilitation, $150,000 federal and farm-to-market funding.
• Highway F48 West. over Prairie Creek, deck rehabilitation, $150,000 federal and farm-to-market funds.
• Highway F24 West, over Indian Creek, deck rehabilitation, $150,000 federal and farm-to-market funds.
• Highway F62 from west city limits of Sully, west 2 miles to County Road T22, resurface and widen shoulders, $1.572 million, farm-to-market funds.
Fiscal Year 2016
• North 39th Avenue East, from Highway T12 west 1 mile to East 28th Street North, 8-inch concrete paving, $1 million, local and special funding.
Fiscal Year 2017
• East 8th Street North, north .75 miles, 6-inch hot mix asphalt paving, $300,000 local funding.
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