MONROE - New year. New projects.
The Green County Highway Department already has planned its road projects for the year, Highway Commissioner Dallas Cecil said.
Projects planned for 2008 include two bridge repairs, paving and seal coat work throughout the county.
Work for the year includes:
• A bridge on County T south of Wisconsin 81 and a bridge on County U north of New Glarus.
• Paving on County D between County C and Wis. 92 and on County N from Wis. 81 to County C, except for the part of the road redone last year.
• Thirty-nine miles of seal coating on county roads.
Cecil said the highway department supervisors will look at the roads again in the spring to determine if any planned for repair have gotten worse and need to be done first or if other roads need work.
Bridge repairs are expected to begin in April, while paving is expected to start in September, Cecil said. Seal coat work should begin in May, he added.
All of the projects are planned to continue despite the higher than expected amount of money spent in December for snow plowing, Cecil said.
"I haven't been told that we'll have to cut back on the projects this year," he said.
In 2007 on Wis. 104 a bluff between Atkinson Road and Townsend Road was taken out to remove a dangerous curve that had been blamed for numerous crashes.
About 90 percent of the project involved cutting a path into 90 feet of rock and moving about 300,000 cubic yards of material to another site.
The project began around June 21 and was completed around Sept. 7.
Also completed last year was a road project on County N between Vogel Road and Tucker Road in Monroe and Washington townships.
The Green County Highway Department already has planned its road projects for the year, Highway Commissioner Dallas Cecil said.
Projects planned for 2008 include two bridge repairs, paving and seal coat work throughout the county.
Work for the year includes:
• A bridge on County T south of Wisconsin 81 and a bridge on County U north of New Glarus.
• Paving on County D between County C and Wis. 92 and on County N from Wis. 81 to County C, except for the part of the road redone last year.
• Thirty-nine miles of seal coating on county roads.
Cecil said the highway department supervisors will look at the roads again in the spring to determine if any planned for repair have gotten worse and need to be done first or if other roads need work.
Bridge repairs are expected to begin in April, while paving is expected to start in September, Cecil said. Seal coat work should begin in May, he added.
All of the projects are planned to continue despite the higher than expected amount of money spent in December for snow plowing, Cecil said.
"I haven't been told that we'll have to cut back on the projects this year," he said.
In 2007 on Wis. 104 a bluff between Atkinson Road and Townsend Road was taken out to remove a dangerous curve that had been blamed for numerous crashes.
About 90 percent of the project involved cutting a path into 90 feet of rock and moving about 300,000 cubic yards of material to another site.
The project began around June 21 and was completed around Sept. 7.
Also completed last year was a road project on County N between Vogel Road and Tucker Road in Monroe and Washington townships.