Work on some of the rural bridges in Cass County Continues. County Engineer Charles Bechtold informed the Board of Supervisors during their meeting this (Friday) morning, that Bridge #134 by Massena was poured a couple of weeks ago and the railings have been installed. It should be open in a couple of weeks. Bridge #17 in the southern part of the County is scheduled to have a deck poured next Wednesday, weather permitting.

He says two bridges are still under design, in-house. Bridge #433 on Olive Street was contracted out, and is expected to be done by November.

Bechtold said also, they’re having a hard time getting QUALITY gravel. Atlantic’s gravel pit he said, is shut-down, and they’re having to pull rock out of other, more distant quarries.

It costs about three-dollars per ton to haul if it comes from Atlantic, but four-dollars per ton from elsewhere. It takes 250-tons of rock and $4,000 to gravel one-mile of road.