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State inspection initiative prompts Walworth County to inventory and plan repairs for small bridges and culverts
Summary
Committee members discussed a statewide effort to inventory and inspect structures under conventional bridge thresholds, noted local examples of costly repairs and said the county will program more culvert work into its strategic plan.
Walworth County Public Works Committee members on April 21 discussed a statewide initiative to expand inspections to smaller structures and said the county has inventoried many culverts and will likely see more repair needs over the next decade.
Joe, a county staff member, told the committee the state started a program to identify and assign ID numbers to structures previously not treated as bridges. He said that historically Wisconsin inspected structures with…
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