Cass County Engineer Charles Marker reported to the Board of Supervisors during their meeting Thursday morning, that there are two bridge projects that will utilize Federal Highway Bridge Funds in the current budget year. Bids for the projects will be let in mid-January. They include bids for bridge #347, on the Cass/Audubon County line in the northeast part of Cass County, and bridge #20, located south of Cumberland. Bids for those projects will be let January 20th.

Marker said because of some addition monies received through the Road Use Tax Fund, his department can also work on three more bridges that are currently in the design phase. He says they hope to replace the wood abutments and pilings and replace them so that the bridges can be removed from the embargoed (weight limit) list. Those bridges include #16 in Massena Township, south of Massena. Bridge #102 in the southwest corner of the County, and Bridge 123.

Work on the bridges is set to begin this spring, with completion anticipated by the end of June, 2016.