The Jasper County Road Department says a bridge replacement project over Elk Creek is to begin Monday, April 6th, causing the closure of County Highway F-62 East between County Highways T-14 and T-22 north of Galesburg. Jasper County Engineer Mike Frietsch says the three-mile closure is expected to last throughout the project, which is scheduled to end October 30th.  

“The design is a 201-foot 4-inch by 30-foot 6-inch pretensioned prestressed concrete beam bridge. That’s essentially what we are building there, on a paved Farm to Market route.”

United Contractors Incorporated and Subsidiaries won the contract for the project with a bid of $1,648,842. The detour that will be in place involves Highway T-22 north to Interstate 80, west to Iowa Highway 14, south to South 60th Avenue East, east to Highway S-74, then south to Highway F-62 East in Reasnor.