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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • August 24, 2016 3A
Public works replaces aging bridge
City council approved $100,000 supplemental budget transfer
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — The city was
hoping it would hold out for
another year, but the old
bridge on Monmouth Cutoff
Road in Dallas had other
plans.
Last week a crew from
Polk County Public Works re-
placed the aging bridge after
a thorough inspection re-
vealed the span’s condition
was worse than originally
thought.
“There’s no way it was
going to pass another
bridge inspection, and we
didn’t want to take the risk
of having the state (require
a weight limit),” said City
Manager Ron Foggin at the
Dallas City Council meet-
ing on Aug. 15.
The council approved a
$100,000 supplemental
budget transfer from the
city’s contingency fund to
pay for the work, which
had already begun at that
point.
Foggin said the city was
aware of issues with the
bridge since an inspection
last year, but had planned to
have the work done during
the 2017-18 fiscal year.
Another solution was to
place a weight limit on the
bridge, but that would have
restricted truck traffic on a
road that is a major trans-
portation route.
He said the bridge’s poor
condition was due to age,
not any other kind of dam-
age.
“It’s just old. It had over-
lay, over overlay, over over-
lay, so more weight’s been
added through the years,”
Foggin said.
The job is estimated to
cost between $85,000 to
$100,000, but the city hopes
actual costs comes in lower,
Foggin said.
Jason Locke said the esti-
mate just includes Polk
JOLENE GUZMAN/ Itemizer-Observer
Work on replacing the bridge was scheduled to be finished on Friday. Crews then repaved the stretch of road.
Bridge work
• Polk County Public
Works replaced the bridge
on Monmouth Cutoff Road
in Dallas.
• The work was sched-
uled to be finished on Fri-
day (Aug. 19) and the
stretch of road was then
repaved.
County’s work, not that of
the city’s public works crew
assisting.
“ We are paying Polk
County for their expertise
and materials because they
have one of the best bridge
repair crews on the West
Coast,” he said. “They do an
excellent job with bridges.”
Bridge replacement,
which closed the road, was
scheduled to be finished by
Friday (Aug. 19). The stretch
was then repaved, closing
down one lane at a time.
JOLENE GUZMAN/ Itemizer-Observer
A Polk County public works crew continues replacing the bridge on Monmouth Cutoff
Road. An inspection found the bridge to be in worse condition than originally thought.
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