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Concrete bridge at city park to be removed

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Lori Sorenson

The old concrete bridge near the Luverne City Park entrance will soon be removed, and River Road will have its own entrance to County Road 4 farther east.
The project consists of the demolition of an old bridge and replacing it with a road that will be extended to County Road 4.
This will leave Luverne’s main city park with one main entrance and exit, and River Road traffic will enter and exit directly at the highway.
Luverne City Council members recently approved the project, which is in city limits, and discussed its merits.
“It will probably be better to get it a little farther away from the city park entrance,” said City Administrator John Call.
“Many of us take it for granted because we’ve been down there so many times, but sometimes people pull in there and get confused about which direction to go.”
The River Road extension will curve a bit before it reaches the highway in order to preserve a row of nearby evergreens.
“I really think our Rock County engineer put a lot of thought in this project, and I think having two entrances down there, a separate one for River Road, is the best plan,” Call said.
“The main thing is that the bridge is beyond its useful years.”
The road and bridge project, which the county is paying for, was bid along with two other projects.
At their Aug. 17 meeting Rock County commissioners accepted the low bid from Henning Construction of $278,120, which is nearly $17,000 below the engineer’s estimate.
The amount also includes removal of a bridge near Con-Agg and two box culvert projects in Luverne and Clinton townships.
The bid for the project near the city park was $80,707.
The timing of the River Road project, depending on funding, will be this fall or next spring.

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