Road 24 out of Milligan is closed for the foreseeable
future. Construction has begun to rerock the nine miles between Highway 6
and Highway 41.
The Fillmore County Board of Supervisors voted during their
April 26 meeting to rerock the Milligan North road. The winning bid was
R.L. Tiemann Construction, Inc. with a bid of $168,435.30 but the board
did approve a change order for $28,044.00 for 3800 ton of higher quality rock
that Tiemann bid but according to the minutes from the meeting the change still
brought the bid in as the lowest bidder.
In 2014 Fillmore County residents had the opportunity to
vote on paving this section of road but the resolution failed by 160 votes
county-wide.
The road, which is heavily traveled, is also one of the main
conduits for school traffic between the Exeter and Milligan campuses of
Exeter-Milligan schools.
County Road Supervisor Pat Halbur didn’t have an estimated
length of the project, “The contractor first told me that they were going to a
half mile a day and I think that they will never make that expectation.
The county has used their forces to do rocking projects before and it took us a
lot longer. They aren’t putting as much rock in it as we did since it
already has rock embedded in the road but I would guess it will take them a few
weeks.”
Halbur also noted that the contract includes a completion
date of August 15 before school starts and the county has an operator dedicated
to maintaining Road 21 and 24 throughout the construction project.
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