Supervisors get updates on bridges and voter cards

During Wednesday's meeting of the Board of Supervisors, County Engineer Les Dungan made a request to approve payment to two contractors for worked recently completed on two county bridges. MDB Holdings, LLC replaced three wood pilings on the Olive Church Road bridge at a cost of $14,850.00. Holliday Construction, LLC built a new support structure using railroad box car culverts on a Homer Ladner Road at a cost of $67,353.50.

Dungan (pictured) gave the board an update on other bridge related projects.

He said that the Otis Jones bridge is open to traffic by using a gravel surface until the paving is completed. The delay of finishing the paving for the project has delayed due to the recent heavy rains.

The work on Progress -Silver Run Road, which has two bridges to be repaired, is underway and the contractor is still driving pilings on the first site of the two sites.

Dungan said that he and board attorney Joe Montgomery are very close to having easements in place for bridge work on Harry Sones and Sones Chapel Road.

The Homer Ladner Road bridge work, initially programmed for state aid, was just recently completed due to bridge needing immediate repairs after being placed on the state’s closure list. Dungan said that program funding needs to be cancelled in order to allow the county to reallocate the funds to another site. Dungan said that he had not yet identified the site for reallocation