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Bids approved for area highway projects

By Greg Bebermeyer

02/11/2020

(KNZA)--The Kansas Department of Transportation has approved bids for several area highway resufacing projects.

St. Joseph, Missouri-based Herzog Contracting Corporation was the sucessful bidder for the projects in Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jefferson and Jackson Counties.

More than 11 miles of U.S. 159 will be resurfaced from the north city limits of Nortonville at the Atchison/Jefferson County line to the west city limits of Effingham. Herzog bid nearly $1,040,000 for project.

A milling and overlay project will take place on a nearly 21 mile stretch of K-20 Highway from the east junction with U.S. 73 in Brown County to the junction with K-7 Highway in Doniphan County for a total cost of more than $1.9 million.

A total of 14 miles of U.S. 59 and K-92 Highways in Jefferson County will be resurfaced for a total cost of nearly $3.2 million. That includes U.S. 59 from the south city limits of Oskaloosa to north of 198th Street and K-92 from Union Street in Oskaloosa east to the junction with U.S 59.

Herzog was also the winning bidder on a milling and overlay project on a 22 mile stretch of K-116 between its junction with K-16 three miles east of Holton and its eastern teminus at U.S Highway 59 near Cummings in Atchison County. Herzog bid more than $2.3 million on the project.

Construction start dates for the projects haven't yet been announced.

Bids were opened January 15 in Topeka.

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