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County will replace 5 bridges
Five rural Boone County bridges will be replaced next year, including two at the same intersection.
The county council Tuesday, Feb. 9, approved spending up to $950,000 for engineering studies of the bridges. Money for the design, and for the construction, comes from the county’s cumulative bridge fund.
Tom Kouns, county highway superintendent, said all but one of the bridges are “skewed” — at an angle to the stream they cross — which means more money must be budgeted for their design. Engineering expenses for the skewed bridges will be no more than $200,000 each.
Two bridges that cross Big Eagle Creek in Big Springs are about 50 yards apart but on separate roads, Kouns said.
Bridge 62 is on the west side of County Road 500 North and CR 1100 E; bridge 58 is on the north side of that intersection.
“It makes sense that, if we replace bridge 62, we do bridge 58 during the same construction season,” Kouns said.
Other bridges to be replaced next year:
n County Road 100 N over Fendley Creek, between CR 1100 E and CR 1200 E;
n CR 750 S, west of Pittsboro Road;
n CR 600 E over Mounts Runn, just south of CR 250 N.
No construction costs have been determined.
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