Contractors will start on road improvements in Warren County for the 2025 asphalt program on Aug. 7 after meeting with county officials and project engineers.
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Contractors will start on road improvements in Warren County for the 2025 asphalt program on Aug. 7 after meeting with county officials and project engineers.
The 2025 asphalt program is the county’s planned road improvements for 2025, which were approved with a roughly $3.9 million contract to Mid Rivers Asphalt on July 24.
The county is responsible for roughly 290,000 miles of roads and will be making improvements to roughly 15.5 miles of roads this year.
Presiding Commissioner Joe Gildehaus had previously explained they are largely focused on catching up on repairs to establish a consistent cycle for overlays and road maintenance. Once they are caught up in coming years, they plan to refocus on paving new roads.
They will still be paving one road this year, in Links Road near Marthasville.
They will also be overlaying Muenz Road, County Farm Road, North Stracks Church Road, North Springtown Road, Pendleton Lost Creek Road, Sunnyside Road, Honey Locust Road and Township Road.
The county chose to spend the remainder of its ARPA funds on this project. Those funds were obligated last year in accordance with the ARPA Final Rule from 2022 which stipulated ARPA money had to be allocated by the end of 2024 and must be spent by the end of 2026.
Mid Rivers Asphalt will be partnering with Magruder Paving to divide the project, which is scheduled to take place over 150 consecutive calendar days with a $700 penalty for each day they go past the deadline.
With a notice to proceed signed on Aug. 7 that places the project’s deadline at Jan. 4, 2026. Project Manager Gary Scheipeter with Cochran Engineering said he hoped they would have the project completed before the end of the year.
Greg Blackmore, with Mid River Asphalt, said they plan to start their portion of the project on Muenz Road with the overlay. Once that is complete they will move to paving Links Road.
From there they will move work to County Farm Road, then North Stracks Road, followed by North Stringtown Road.
Blackmore said there would be a stoppage in their work some time in September so they could continue work on other projects, and that the order of the roads was decided by their proximity to their asphalt plant.
“We always start furthest away and work to closest to the plant because of weather,” said Blackmore.
Mark Lindsey, with Magruder, said they would start their portion of the project with Pendleton Farm Road in early October before moving on to Sunnyside Road, then Honey Locust Road followed by Township Road.
Gildehaus emphasized to both contractors that communication with residents and local authorities would be paramount as work on the project progressed.
“Make sure you get that communication with the homeowners, landowners, that’s gonna be very important, emergency management, 911, etc.,” said Gildehaus. “That’s the biggest thing on working with these guys.”
He also requested that they move quickly between milling and overlaying roads, citing issues with previous contractors last year.
