Road construction ongoing in Otsego County

By: Cathy Landry

OTSEGO COUNTY — Several road construction projects continue around Otsego County this month, as well as into the fall, while some other work has been wrapped up.

Jason Melancon, Otsego County Road Commission manager, listed eight projects that are either in progress, have been completed, or are yet to come before the construction season ends.

Melancon said three projects are currently under construction: Murner Road from Five Lakes Road to Parmater Road in Livingston Township; Northwoods Drive from Pencil Lake Road to Forest Ridge Drive in Hayes Township; and Beckett Road from Turtle Lake Road, heading east about 1 mile, in Chester Township.

The Murner Road project is a reconstruction job with an estimated cost of $960,664. Funds are coming from three sources: federal, $426,419, road commission millage, $434,245, and Livingston Township, $100,000.

Northwoods Drive, a crush and shape job with a hot mix asphalt treatment, has an estimated cost of $210,000, and received $100,000 from Hayes Township and $110,000 in road commission funding.

Beckett Road has gotten road commission millage funding of $584,553.54 and $100,000 from Chester Township for the nearly $700,000 project. Melancon said the 1.14-mile stretch of roadway is being rehabilitated and the work to be done includes hot mix asphalt crushing and shaping, aggregate base, vertical alignment improvements, hot mix asphalt pavement, paved shoulders, pavement markings and slope restoration.

Four projects have been finished, Melancon noted, including Old 27 North from the roundabout at Livingston Boulevard north to Congdon Road in Livingston Township; North Otsego Lake Drive from Dickerson Road to Old 27 South in Bagley Township; Old Alba Road from Hayes Tower Road to Old Alba’s dead end in Hayes Township; and Old Colony, Brandywine and Crosswick roads in Elmira Township.

Old 27 North, at a projected cost of $259,200, was paid for by $212,000 from federal funds and $47,200 from the road commission millage. The work involved milling and resurfacing.

North Otsego Lake Drive received $269,040 from federal funds, $65,000 from Bagley Township and $104,636 from the road commission to pay for the reconstruction of the roadway at an estimated cost of $438,676.

Old Alba received a hot mix asphalt overlay treatment and the $195,242 project was funded by $95,242 from millage and $100,000 from Hayes Township.

The road construction work consisting of a 2-inch asphalt overlay for Old Colony, Brandywine and Crosswick was completed with $34,147.13 from Elmira Township and a match of $34,147.13 from the road commission.

The one project yet to come is the Old 27 South mill and resurface work from North Otsego Lake Drive to Old State/Mancelona roads. It is scheduled to take place this fall, according to Melancon. The work, at an estimated cost of $622,037, is being funded by $442,037 from the road commission, $100,000 from Bagley Township and $80,000 from Otsego Lake Township.

“All these numbers are subject to change a little as we still have invoices coming in on the completed projects,” Melancon said in an email.

He added that he still was working on getting some other projects together, but did not expect them to be completed this year.

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