(Red Oak, Iowa) – Montgomery County Engineer Karen Albert, Tuesday, updated the Board of Supervisors on Secondary Roads Department maintenance projects and activities.

Six Secondary Roads Department employees, she said, were undergoing specific training in Atlantic, Tuesday. Albert handed-out to the Board some pictures of the K Avenue Railroad Bridge. Albert received a call last Thursday from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, informing her the bridge had been damaged by deep gouges caused by an unknown implement or device.

The railroad owns the K, L and Q Avenue bridges in Montgomery County, and the County is not allowed to conduct any type of maintenance on them. She said “The railroad can choose to close these bridges if they want to. They are the railroad’s bridges…they own the bridges.” She urged the Board to keep that in-mind.

In other business, Karen Albert updated the Supervisors in Montgomery County on the 180th Street precast concrete box culvert project.

She said work on the 250th Street bridge continues, as well. When the 250th Street bridge project is completed, the County plans to hold a dedication ceremony and grand opening.