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Public works proposes closing low-use Ridge at Diamond Road bridge, keep it on inventory for grant funding

5760274 · August 26, 2025
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Director of Public Works said the stone-arch bridge on Ridge at Diamond Road is low-use and that staff recommends closing the structure but keeping it on the county inventory to pursue Kansas Local Bridge Improvement Program funding to remove and possibly replace it later.

Butler County Public Works staff reported on an old stone-arch bridge on Ridge at Diamond Road that currently carries a 5-ton limit and serves a dead-end mile road with very limited users. Director of Public Works Curtis Mater said landowners generally preferred keeping the road as a quiet, dead-end roadway and one property owner opposed…

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