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Boone County highway staff report cost-saving culvert reuse and win $13 million bridge grant
Summary
Boone County highway staff told the County Committee of the Whole on May 1 that crews repurposed old railroad tanker cars as large culverts on Quail Trap Road, IDOT will hold a public meeting May 21 on Route 173, and the county won a $13 million bridge bundling grant requiring no local match.
Boone County Highway Department staff reported on May 1 that crews repurposed old railroad tanker cars as large-diameter culverts, and that the county received a $13,000,000 state bridge bundling award that requires no local match. The department also urged residents to attend an Illinois Department of Transportation public input meeting on Illinois Route 173 on May 21 in Capron.
The county’s highway presenter, Justin (Highway Department staff), told the Committee of the Whole that crews cut the ends off old railroad tanker cars and used two 48-foot sections (9-foot-3-inch diameter) as culverts on Quail Trap Road, east of…
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