By Editor | April 14, 2021
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Presiding Commissioner Garry Nelson stressed to road and bridge foreman Scott Schmieder that the entire Lawrenceton Cutoff Road project needs to be started and completed before asphalt prices start rising.
While he doesn’t expect problems getting the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) permit to do the intersection of Highway Y and Roth Road (which turns into Lawrenceton Cutoff Road), Nelson suggested having “a back-up plan.”
That could include starting on the Highway C side of the bridge to pave.
According to the MoDOT Asphalt Price Indexing, the price of asphalt per liquid tonnage could jump by nearly 10 percent from April to May and another 25 percent from May to June.
By Editor | March 17, 2021
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Scott Schmieder, county road and bridge foreman, reported to the Ste. Genevieve County Commission last Thursday that he had already gotten some work done on Lawrenceton Cutoff Road before heavy rains hit. He said his crews would be back at it as soon as weather permitted.
The crumbling road is the county’s first priority this paving season. A week earlier Schmieder and the commissioners met representatives of Jokerst, Inc. and Vern Bauman Contracting at the road and discussed the upcoming project. They also visited some other roads the local rivals will probably be bidding on, including the intersection of Roth Road and Highway Y.