A $3.5 million project is underway in Amite County to mill and overlay Highway 24 from the western city limits of Liberty to just west of Velma Street, Mississippi Department of Transportation officials said.
Undersealing and drainage work is now complete on Highway 24 as well as joint repair, and paving is taking place. This contract was awarded to Dickerson & Bowen of Brookhaven, and is expected to be completed by the fall.
Among other updates, an overlay is under way in Walthall County on five miles of Highway 98 from Industrial Park Road to Old Highway 98 East, while work on traffic signals has already been completed.
Also, scrub seal work has been completed and mainline paving is taking place. The contract for the $5.2 million project, also awarded to Dickerson & Bowen is expected to be completed this fall.
• A $2.9 million project in Lincoln County, also expected to be completed this fall, to mill and overlay the paved shoulders, local roads and crossovers of approximately five miles of Highway 84 from Highway 51 to Monticello Street NE. Concrete work has been completed on the job.
• A mill and overlay project in Lawrence County was completed on Highway 43 from the Jefferson Davis County line to County Road 43A.
Dickerson & Bowen has those contracts.
• Work on completing a repair on a landslide on Highway 61 in Wilkinson County about a third of a mile north of the intersection of 61 and Cold Springs Road. Work at one site has already been completed and pipe placement is complete and the embankment is currently being filled at a second site.
The $1.3 million project was awarded to Midway Construction of Roxie and is also expected to be completed this fall.
“Thanks to a busy construction season and favorable weather, quite a few infrastructure projects are making headway, and several are wrapping up in the southwest region of the state,” Southern District Transportation Commissioner Tom King said in a statement Friday. “Increased funding has led to major progress in infrastructure improvements with projects taking place in virtually every part of the state.”
