Additional mile of Route 1055 to be closed September 14

The Douglas County Public Works Department announces that beginning Monday, September 14, Route 1055 (E 1700 Road) will be closed to through traffic between N 400 Road and N 600 Road.  The closure beginning September 14 extends by one mile the current Route 1055 closure between N 500 Road and N 600 Road.  The closure of Route 1055 between N 400 Road and N 500 Road is for Phase II project work to rehabilitate the pavement and improve ditches in the one-mile section and to reconstruct the N 500 Road intersection.

This Phase II closure is scheduled for 14 working days.  It is planned to open Route 1055 from N 400 Road to N 500 Road in early October, weather permitting.  The closure will be from the north side of the N 400 Road intersection to the south side of the N 600 Road intersection.  This closure includes the entire Route 1055/N 500 Road intersection.  A signed detour follows US-56 highway, US-59 highway, and Route 460 (N 650 Rd/N 600 Rd).

In addition to the Phase II closure, Phase III construction work will begin Tuesday, September 8.  Phase III work includes replacing entrance pipes along Route 1055 between N 600 Road and N 700 Road.  Traffic will be controlled for this Phase III work by one-lane traffic signs and flaggers.

The purpose of the entire project is to replace the large concrete box culvert approximately 0.1 miles north of N 500 Road with a single-span concrete girder bridge, reconstruct the pavement from N 500 Road to approximately ½-mile north of N 500 Road including paved shoulders, and milling, patching and overlaying the remaining pavement in the three-mile long project length.  The work also includes channel stabilization at the bridge 0.1 miles north of N 500 Road.  Roadside safety will be improved in the vicinity of the bridge by construction of a bridge rail and approach guard rail.  A separate project constructed earlier this spring included removing trees within the road right-of-way between N 500 Road and N 600 Road, replacing nine narrow culverts, and construction of paved shoulders at the Route 1055/N 600 Road intersection.  The entire project is anticipated to be completed by early-November, weather permitting.

The project is funded by Douglas County’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) along with $165,000 in funds provided by the US Fish & Wildlife Service for stream channel stabilization work.  The Board of County Commissioners awarded the contract to Hamm, Inc., who submitted the low bid of $1,795,709.10.