RICHMOND, Ind. – Engineering and design work will proceed on three Wayne County bridge projects.
On Wednesday, the three county commissioners unanimously approved $ 296,000 for the work that will get the projects ready. The county can then submit these projects to the state for possible funding through the Community Crossings program or take advantage of any additional infrastructure funding opportunities that arise.
The projects going on are a 20-foot bridge over Fountain City Pike with an engineering and design cost of $ 52,000, a 140-foot bridge over Gravel Pit Road with a cost of $ 130,000, and a project that includes bridges over Brick Church and Clyde Oler Streets with a Cost of $ 114,000.
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Another bridge over Mulberry Street in Cambridge City will soon be subject to federal funding. Brandon Sanders, the county engineer, said it’s the only bridge in the county that scored low enough in the most recent inspections to qualify for federal funding. Engineering and design work on federally funded projects occurs after the grant is granted.
Sanders originally only submitted the Fountain City Pike and Gravel Pit Road projects for commissioners’ consideration; however, the commissioners have asked for a third of the five projects Sander said was in the works. He prioritized the two-bridge project which, according to him, mainly includes preventative maintenance and new bridge decks.
The county has already completed bridge projects on North 24th Street and West Eaton Pike in Richmond during this construction season. Work is underway on a Woodside Drive bridge.
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Surveyor Gordon Moore presented commissioners with a proposal to request the construction of two cul-de-sacs in the Eagle Trace subdivision before roads in the subdivision could qualify for county assistance.
The cul-de-sac would be at the end of Oriole Lane and Blue Heron Drive so that the county snow plows have room to go around. There are two driveways on the short stretch of Oriole Lane south of Cardinal Drive. There are still no driveways on Blue Heron Drive west of Mockingbird Lane; however, a lot is for sale along that stretch of the road.
The developers failed to meet road standards or build a retention basin when the Eagle Trace subdivision was built. These breakdowns resulted in the county not taking responsibility for road maintenance and the city stopped developing vacant allotments.
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The decades-old issue has now arisen as the Suzanne Raper Marital Trust has reached an agreement to sell 49 acres of land south of the subdivision for its seventh Richmond solar park to the Indiana Municipal Power Agency. The trust has promised to upgrade the allotment roads to county standards and build the retention basin to receive the necessary planning approval to allow the sale to be completed.
The commissioners unanimously approved permission for Moore to submit the dead end requirements to the trust.