Though the Guthrie County Secondary Roads Department has a smaller workload to coincide with responding to snow and ice this winter, County Engineer Josh Sebern says there is much to look forward to in the 2021 construction season.

The County has already approved contracts for an aluminum box culvert project with Benner Tiling and Dozing, a Hungry Canyons Alliance project to replace a bridge and install two weirs on Grant Avenue, and a bridge replacement on County Road F25 east of Yale. Sebern comments on recent activity for the secondary roads department, “We have been very active on the engineering and design side and we have three major highway bridges that are going to be going into construction next year. They’re going to bid this winter so that’s going to be a major impact to the traveling public next construction season.”

Sebern says the soonest that any of these projects could commence is April of 2021, though the Iowa Department of Transportation controls these dates as the projects are being made possible through a mix of federal and state funds.