County roads, bridges slated for improvements

Several county roads will see improvements this year.

At Monday’s meeting, the Cheyenne County board of commissioners approved the county highway department’s one and six year road improvement plans. A previously completed project in the plan includes a box culvert replacement at Rd. 139 northwest of Lodgepole on Weyerts Rd. This project was finished this spring.

The box culvert washed out in a storm in 2010.

Improvement plans for this year include asphalt to be ground and imbedded on Rd 109 at a cost of around $14,000. A little less than a mile stretch on Rd. 105 north of Rd. 32 north west of Sidney will be ground and imbedded for around $8,000 in 2014, as well. Also this year, the county will grind and imbed two miles of Road 103 also north west of town for a price tag of around $15,000.

In the plans for some time in the next six years include a replacement of the bridge on Rd. 145 as well as grading work and repairs to existing culverts on Rd. 16. The county also plans to replace the bridge over Lodgepole Creek on Road 24 sometime in the next six years.

Work on the last three projects will depend on the conditions of the existing structures in place, and whether or not any of the area containing some of these roads are annexed into the city, said county highway superintendent Tom Noel.

The existing structures are old, but are currently in good shape, Noel added.