July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.

Bridge to get facelift (5/17/04)

Commissioners OK contract for repainting of structure near New Corydon

By By Mike [email protected]

A steel truss bridge over the Wabash River near New Corydon will be getting a facelift in the coming months.

The bridge, which carries county road 700 East over the Wabash River at Jay City, will be repainted sometime this summer at a cost of a little less than $70,000.

Jay County engineer Dan Watson asked Jay County Commissioners this morning for permission to award a contract for repainting the bridge.

Commissioners Mike Leonhard, Gary Theurer and Milo Miller Jr. gave Watson approval to contract with N.I. Spanos Painting of Merrillville to clean, prime and apply two coats of paint to the bridge at a total cost of $68,756.

The bridge will be closed for an estimated two weeks while it is being repainted.

The bridge was built in 1954 and is in relatively good shape, Watson told the commissioners.

Also this morning, Ralph Frazee, director of Jay County Emergency Management Agency, updated the commissioners on several applications for Department of Homeland Security grants that were recently submitted.

Frazee said that applications for a total of $145,833 in grants were submitted — including approximately $60,000 that would be spent on communications equipment; $50,000 for law enforcement purposes; $19,000 for increased resolution of the aerial photography on the county’s geographic information system (GIS); and $16,000 for the purchase of gas masks for those certified to handle hazardous materials.

The grants, which originate from the federal government and are passed through state emergency management agencies, are a result of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in Washington D.C. and New York.

Frazee said this morning he will know by early July whether the grant requests have been approved, and that if approved, the funding could be in hand by mid-July.[[In-content Ad]]
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