McGregor’s Sixth Street Bridge Project is moving ahead

Audrey Posten, Times-Register

The McGregor Council, at its June 17 meeting, approved the plans, specifications, opinion of cost and form of contract for the upcoming Sixth Street Bridge Project.

Tim Cutsforth, senior project manager with HR Green, said work will include taking out the bridge, which crosses the city’s storm sewer, and replacing it with a box culvert.

“We’ll also be replacing sanitary sewer for the length of the block, and the length of the street will be repaved as well,” he told the council.

Cutsforth said the estimated cost for the project, which will be completed later this year, is $334,549. The city of McGregor received state bridge funding that will cover 80 percent of that portion of the project—but not the sanitary sewer or street pavement portions. 

“That makes your share around $100,000,” he noted.

Due to the historic nature of the city’s storm sewer—a development that slowed progress on the project—McGregor will have to take several steps to preserve that history. That includes erecting informational signage in the town and stockpiling and redistributing salvageable rock from the original structure for community use. When installing the box culvert, any connections with the storm sewer will also have to look historic.