County Crews were able to lay a Cold Mix Paving Process (ODOT Specification 405) which enabled them to pave 14.20 miles and then laid a Type 408 Seal Coat on top of that on all or portions of County Road 41 (Big Spruce-Little Bear Creek Road), County Road 58 (Caldwell Road), County Road 59 (Dace Road),County Road 184 (Flatwoods-Fallen Timber Road), and County Road 54 (Morris Lane)costing $173,356.37. Also we put a Type 409 Seal Coat on roads listed below using County Forces. These Roads include all or a portion of County Road 9 (Clinton Furnace Road), County Road 25(Cockrell's Run Road), County Road 13 (Gephart Road), County Road 577 (Hayport Road),County Road 153 (Jake Kuhn Road),County Road 64 (Maple-Benner Road),County Road 54 (Morris Lane),County Road 533 (Old SR 335),County Road 39 (Rarden-Hazelbaker Hill Road)County Road 40 (Rocky Fork Road),and County Road 96 (Upper Twin Creek Road), costing $187,295.53 being 43.57 miles of County roadways. A total of 91.10 miles of County roads received new double yellow centerlines, 9.48 miles of passing zone lines 5.81 miles of lane lines and 1,500 feet of Channel Lines were applied. Striping for the 2005 season cost a total of $36,529.15. The contract to do the striping was awarded to Oglesby Construction, Inc., of Norwalk, Ohio.
We are still working on updating our Road Record Book. The Road Book is made up of all County and Township Roads telling how and when each road was established. It also tells which of the Roads were surveyed along the way. This information from our Road Record Book will eventually be yet another layer added to our Computerized Tax Maps. The most important part of this job is the upkeep of the maps. Without this you have nothing. Some of the changes are as basic as changing the names of property owners and when a new survey comes in changing the property lines. We also make changes to the map when roads and alleys have been vacated, and adding new roads and subdivisions as they are developed. Also we are getting closer to having all of our software programs to work together so that we can put our Computerized Mapping onto a CD. We will then be able to offer this to the public to use on their home computers. This will be most beneficial to Real Estate Agents and Surveyors. We are scanning and laminating ole records to help preserve them. I think this is a worthwhile project and will certainly go far to keep our county history from fading away.
We applied for and received approval from the Ohio Public Works Commission for two (2) bridges under the Issue II Infrastructure Program, as listed: County Road 42 (Tick Ridge-Koenig Hill Road) for a cost of $277,000.00,and County Road 96 (Upper Twin Creek Road)for a cost of $207,101.80. Total replacement was done on both bridges for a total cost of $484,101.80 and we received $385,210.20 of this amount from Ohio Public Works Commission. The County Bridge Department did total replacement on eight (8) bridges this year as follows: County Road 20 (Salem Road), $36,422.96; County Road 31 (Swauger Valley), $45,297.64; County Road 51 (Great Meadow Road), $58,718.85; County Road 51 (Kentucky Trail), $36,023.20;Township Road 201 (Millstone Road), $34,919.23; Township Road 375 (Besco Road)), $49,349.38; Township Road 123 (Tatman-Coe Road), $39,860.17; and Township Road 206 (Bull Run Road), $35,130.65. Eleven (11) precast box culverts were purchased this year. Once the boxes were delivered, we awarded a contract to a contractor to install these boxes. The cost of the boxes and the labor to install was $286,860.66. Listed are the bridges replaced with box culverts: County Road 135 (Cramer Road), $18,467.53; County Road 135 (Cramer Road), $18,482.07; County Road 34 (Sedan Crabtree Road), $23,069.97; County Road 34 (Sedan Crabtree Road), $23,234.64; County Road 8 (Haverhill-Ohio Furnace Road) $23,152.42; County Road 34 (Sedan Crabtree Road), $44,523.22; Township Road 158 (Thomas Hollow Road), $27,914.84. Four (4) boxes were put in with the help of three (3) townships (Rush, Nile and Porter) they participated with the County Engineer to share the cost of replacing bridges in their township as listed: Two (2) bridges on Possum Hollow for a cost of $46,397.71 with Porter Township paying $24,000.00,Pond Run Road Bridge cost $29,833.69 with Nile Township paying $13,000.00 and Crowe Hollow replacement cost $31,783.92 and Rush Township paying $15,891.96. These bridges could not have been replaced without the financial help of the Township Trustees.
Stan Stonerock, our Sign Maintenance Supervisor, has been a little more busy than normal these past few weeks. He has been traveling the county roads at night checking to see that all of our signs have the proper reflectivity. This is important because by law the reflectivity of the signs has to meet a specific standard. If the reflecting material wears off or fades the signs lose their ability to reflect off an automobile's headlights and the driver might be unable to see the sign, possibly causing an accident. We try to do this checking at least once a year to keep our signs up to standard.
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