Supervisors review five-year construction plan

The list of roads and bridges in need of repair or replacement in Grundy County never seems to get any shorter, and county engineer Gary Mauer outlined some of the key projects for the next five fiscal years during Monday morning’s regular meeting of the board of supervisors.
           
Some of the marquee items include the potential right of way, grading and paving of Grundy Road along the Black Hawk County line over three years (which will cost upwards of $4 million in all), an almost $2 million hot mix asphalt (HMA) overlay on T-19 between Wellsburg and Aplington in FY 2020, two HMA projects estimated at $1,375,000 each on D65 and D53 west of Conrad, a $900,000 bridge replacement near Wolf Creek Park east of Beaman and a $720,000 bridge project northeast of Wellsburg.
           
Of course, progress on the Grundy Road project—an initiative that the two supervisors representing the eastern half of the county have strongly supported—is contingent on Black Hawk County’s participation, and if the board there opts to delay action, Mauer indicated that he could still remove it from the plans.
           
“If they can’t give me an answer, I’ll have to move everything out,” he said. 
 
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