Final plans submitted for concrete replacement at T-22 culvert

Supervisors this past week approved the final plans for a portland cement concrete replacement project along Highway T-22 South, about 0.2 miles north of South 44th Avenue East, which the county engineer said is needed after a pavement hatch settled over a box culvert and caused a dip on the road.

Jasper County Engineer Michael Frietsch said, “It never got a chance to settle out well enough before they put pavement down there.”

Funded with local dollars, the scope of the project requires a contractor to remove the concrete that is all broken up, reset the subgrade, put a base of rock down and then repour eight inches of concrete. Frietsch said he wants to do a 12-inch subgrade preparation that is similar to what the county did for F-48 West.

“We’re going to go in there, disc it up and then compact it and have a third party basically looking at it,” Frietsch said. “We’ll let it probably (in the) spring ... So we’re going to give this about a month for people to look at. So it’ll be next spring.”

Supervisor Doug Cupples asked the county engineer if he had an estimate for the project. Frietsch said it could cost between $150,000 to $200,000.

“We’re not talking a long distance of pavement here at all,” Frietsch said. “But at least when we get this done we won’t have trailers dragging their rears on it.”