Culvert work scheduled for Lewis Center area
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), has awarded a contract to Woolpert, a national geospatial, engineering, and architecture firm with its headquarters in Dayton, to replace culverts on two major Ohio highways.
Woolpert will be tasked with providing the designs for retaining walls and culverts that will be replaced on U.S. Route 23 and Ohio Route 423. The firm will also provide the safety upgrades, roadway tie-ins, and hydraulic engineering necessary to complete the work, which promises to be complex.
The work on Route 23 will be carried out between Delaware, a city in Delaware County, and Lewis Center, while the work on Route 423 will be done in the southern part of Marion County.
The Route 23 project is difficult and challenging. The culverts being replaced are 60 years old, and the road is one of the busiest in the area, carrying an average of 35,000 vehicles every day. In order to avoid disrupting traffic, Woolpert will keep four lanes open at all times during the week, and spread the work out through five phases, rather than two, as is more usual. Although work is not scheduled to begin until 2019, planning and design processes are underway now.
Lewis center officials might consider working with a flyer printing company on a mailer to alert residents to the project, and how it could affect traffic patterns.
Woolpert will be tasked with providing the designs for retaining walls and culverts that will be replaced on U.S. Route 23 and Ohio Route 423. The firm will also provide the safety upgrades, roadway tie-ins, and hydraulic engineering necessary to complete the work, which promises to be complex.
The work on Route 23 will be carried out between Delaware, a city in Delaware County, and Lewis Center, while the work on Route 423 will be done in the southern part of Marion County.
The Route 23 project is difficult and challenging. The culverts being replaced are 60 years old, and the road is one of the busiest in the area, carrying an average of 35,000 vehicles every day. In order to avoid disrupting traffic, Woolpert will keep four lanes open at all times during the week, and spread the work out through five phases, rather than two, as is more usual. Although work is not scheduled to begin until 2019, planning and design processes are underway now.
Lewis center officials might consider working with a flyer printing company on a mailer to alert residents to the project, and how it could affect traffic patterns.