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Adams County commissioners begin process to vacate Bridge 153 and adjacent one-mile road due to flooding, cost concerns
Summary
After staff detailed frequent flooding, high replacement costs and safety issues at Bridge 153, commissioners voted to initiate the statutory process to vacate the bridge and approximately one mile of roadway and to notify adjoining landowners for a public hearing.
Adams County commissioners voted to begin the formal process to vacate County Bridge 153 and about one mile of adjacent roadway after county staff described repeated flooding, high replacement costs and public-safety concerns.
County staff (Speaker 4) presented a detailed engineering review of Bridge 153 and the roadway section between US 27 and roughly 670 feet west of County Road 25 West. Staff described the bridge as a single-span 55-foot structure with a 1930 spread footer and noted box beams were added during a 1985 rehabilitation. The roadway is inside a floodplain and is…
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