(Le Mars) — Plymouth County engineer Tom Rohe gave an end of the year report regarding the road and bridge construction projects that were completed during this past construction season. All total, the county worked on and completed 28
different construction projects. Rohe mentioned there were two road projects, the first consisting of three miles of paving on county road K-42 from County road C-38 to Highway 3. The second was a grading project on County road C-60 from Highway 140 heading west.
Plymouth County installed one concrete bridge this past summer, and three steel beam bridges. There were ten different
locations throughout the county where either contractors, or county employees, installed a pre-cast box culvert. Corrigated Metal Pipes were installed at 12 locations. Rohe says contractors worked on 13 county construction projects,
while county employees did the work on 15 separate projects. The grand total for road and bridge repair projects in Plymouth County during 2016 was listed at $5,141,256.83. Rohe says contractor roadway repairs amounted to more than $2.6
million dollars. While contractor constructed bridge and culvert repairs totaled nearly $2.1 million dollars. The amount spent for projects that were completed by county employees was listed at $421,172. Rohe admitted to the county board of supervisors that both the Local Options Sales Tax money, and the
new revenue from the increase in fuel tax, allowed work crews to complete more construction projects.
