CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is alerting area drivers to the start of replacement work on two Route 46 bridges in Norwich Township.
The bridges are about 2 ½ miles apart.
One bridge spans Lost Run near the village of Betula. It is 13-feet long, dates from 1925 and carries almost 500 vehicles each day. The second bridge spans a branch of Potato Creek about one mile south of Colegrove. It is 11-feet long, dates from 1927, and carries almost 500 vehicles each day. Replacing these bridges will improve their rating from poor to good.
Starting Tuesday, preliminary work will begin to mobilize equipment, install erosion and sediment controls, and begin construction of temporary roadways. During this first phase of work, drivers will encounter an alternating traffic pattern enforced by roadway flaggers. Drivers should expect short travel delays.
Once the temporary roads are complete, traffic will use them to move through each work zone and work to replace the bridges will begin. Overall work includes removal of the existing structures, construction of new Precast Concrete Box Culverts approach work consisting of base, binder and wearing courses, guide rail updates, drainage, pavement markings, and miscellaneous items.
The contractor on this $1.3 million job is Dean Construction Inc. of Smethport. Work will take place through October and is weather and schedule dependent.
