Planning for a pair of bridge projects for next summer is nearly finished.
Greene County engineer Wade Weiss told the supervisors at their Aug. 8 meeting that County Road N-65 will be closed for five months for work on the Raccoon River bridge south of 170th St. The late start date in the contract is May 1, with 90 working days allowed.
The new bridge will be longer and wider than the current bridge. Cost is $2.2 million, with 80 percent of that being federal bridge money. Weiss said patching will be done on N-65 while it’s closed. The detour route will use County Road E-33 (Eaton Ave) and the “Brown” bridge over the river.
Also slated for next summer is a smaller project on the old Lincoln Highway bridge on 210th St near the Highway 30 diagonal near Ralston. The late start date in that contract is June 1, with 70 working days allowed. Cost is estimated at $500,000, with funding coming from the increase in rural farm to market road funds generated by the gas tax increase two years ago.
Weiss said the bridge will feature Lincoln Highway badges similar to those planned for the Highway 30 overpass at Grand Junction. That project is also planned for the summer of 2017.
