The Jefferson County Public Works Department will begin resurfacing 60 miles of roads throughout the county on Thursday, July 17.
Lanes will be partially closed, with flaggers directing traffic, while work continues to complete the project, Public Works Director Jason Jonas said in a written statement.
N. B. West Contracting Co. in Pacific was the lowest of two bidders to complete about half of the resurfacing and will be paid $2,404,670.16 for that project, Jonas said.
The company will complete about 20 miles of chip-sealing and 10 miles of ultrathin bonded asphalt wearing surface (UBAWS) overlays. That chip-sealing is expected to be finished by Nov. 1, and the UBAWS overlays will be completed in late August or early September, he said.
Jonas said the other 30 miles worth of chip-sealing will be completed by Public Works crews and will cost an estimated $989,044. The county crews are scheduled to begin their portion of the chip-sealing in mid-August. That work will be contained to Council District 6 in the southern part of the county and District 7 in the southwest part of the county.
The resurfacing will be covered with part of the county’s share of revenue from a countywide 1/2-cent sales tax for road and bridge improvements, he said.
According to Jonas, the roads to be chip-sealed beginning on Thursday are Black Creek Road from Miller Road to the end of county maintenance; Buckeye Road from Plass Road to Hillsboro Hematite Road; East Four Ridge Road from Old Hwy. 21 to Old Lemay Ferry Road; Frontier Road from Hwy. A to the end of county maintenance; Kneff Road from Old Hwy. M to Old Lemay Ferry Road; Little Antire Road from Antire Road to Hwy. PP; Miller Road East from Hwy. 61-67 to Black Creek Road; Morgan Road from the beginning of county maintenance to Hwy. A; Nollman Road from Antire Road to Little Antire Road; Plass Road from the beginning of county maintenance to Sandy Valley Road; and Prairie Hollow Road from Spring Forest Road to Seckman Road.
The roads will be swept of any loose rock and restriped a few days after the chip-sealing is placed.
The UBAWS overlay to begin in late August to early September will cover Delores Road from Fon du Lac Lane to the end of county maintenance; Dillon Road from Hwy. 30 to Williams Creek Road; Gravois Road from Hwy. 30 to Indian Springs Road; Gravois Road (Schumacher) from the beginning of county maintenance to the end of county maintenance; Miller Road from the West Outer I-55 to Old Lemay Ferry Road; and West Four Ridge Road from the Hwy. 21 bridge to Old Hwy. 21.
The county will complete chip-sealing on the following 22 roads starting in mid-August: College Road from Venita Lane to Old Hwy. 21; Venita Lane from College Road to the end of county maintenance; Burgan Grove Road from Hwy. W to the end of county maintenance; Lee Pyle Road from Flucom Road East to Hwy. 67; Morse Avenue from Cory Lane to Hyfield Road; Hillcrest Drive from Berry Dairy Road to the end of county maintenance; Flucom East Road from Charter Church Road to Hwy. 67; Chouteau Avenue from Augusta Avenue to Victoria Road; Cory Lane from Chouteau Avenue to Morse Avenue; Hillsboro Avenue from Victoria Road to the end of county maintenance; Augusta Avenue from Chouteau Avenue to the end of county maintenance; Bogey Avenue from Victoria Road to Hyfield Road; Victoria Cemetery Road from Hillsboro Victoria Road to the end of county maintenance; Pioneer Road from Highland Baptist Church Road to the end of county maintenance; Flucom Meadows from the beginning of county maintenance to Flucom Road; Berry Dairy Road from De Soto city limits to Hwy. V; Russell Road from Hwy. Y to Breckenridge Road; Oermann Road from Hwy. 30 to Jones Creek Road; Burgess Ford Road from Cedar Hill Road to the end of county maintenance; Pinson Ford Road from the beginning of county maintenance to Engleford Road; Engleford Road from Browns Ford Road to the end of county maintenance; and Klondike North Road from Hwy. BB to Hwy. B.