(Audubon) Within the next few weeks a lengthy project of the Audubon County Secondary Roads Department will be coming to completion, one way or another.
Supervisors Chairman Doug Sorensen says the county will be reaching out to Windstream in regards to a culvert project. “The big thing right now is the Douglas 32 bridge that has been removed and we are waiting to put in a ten foot culvert. We’ve been waiting since about February to get this done and it’s held up by Windstream having a Fiber Optic cable buried there and they don’t know how exactly deep it is. Their plan was to re-bore it.”
A permit for boring was issued June 20th. “The County Engineer says they have 90 days to re-bore that. That puts out to September 20th. They were telling us they were going to have it done by the 12th of August. It didn’t happen. Here we are at the end of August and it hasn’t happened. By law after 90 days we can go ahead and put in a tube and if we hit it we hit. We don’t want to hit it and I don’t think we’ll hit it, we aren’t going any deeper than the water level now, but if we were to hit it it could cause an outage.”
The plan is to send Windstream a letter that says they have until the 20th to re-bore if they want to, otherwise the county will go ahead and put the tube in. Sorensen admits there’s an increased urgency to get the project completed with harvest looming.
