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Project has detour along Marquette Road in PdC

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An MG&E gas crew tends to work on the Taylor Street project, near the United Methodist Church. The project will improve stormwater flowing from Godden Pit to the river and help to mitigate flood issues along there. (Photo by Correne Martin)

By Correne Martin

 

In an effort to address flooding problems within the city of Prairie du Chien, a two-month construction project is underway. The project scope is two-fold: 1) in the center of the community along Taylor Street, from Marquette Road to Godden Pit at Fremont Street, and 2) on the city’s northern edge, including a North Gateway Business Park expansion and improvements to Campbell Coulee Creek.

The major impact to travelers and businesses (a few residences) will involve closure of Marquette Road at Taylor Street, and a detour around that intersection beginning Tuesday, Sept. 7, for approximately 10 days. The official detour will route traffic along the Highway 18 Bypass; however, local traffic will of course utilize Crawford, Ohio, Dousman and Dunn Streets.

The city’s Utility Director Larry Gates said this will allow for new storm and sanitary sewer and water main upgrades serving the outlet from Godden Pit—a locally-known retaining pond at Fremont Street—to the river. 

“All businesses and residences will maintain access to their property throughout the project,” City Administrator Chad Abram said. That’s also the same for the businesses in the North Gateway Business Park.

Once street reconstruction is complete in that location, the project will move easterly, block by block, toward the bluff. As soon as the construction approaches Fremont Street and Godden Pit, the contractor, H. James & Sons, and the city will be in contact with the schools and nursing home in the vicinity to ensure minimal effect for them, Gates said. 

Project completion is anticipated by Nov. 1, with lawn touch-ups occurring by spring 2022.

Travelers accessing Marquette Road may have already noticed some work happening near the Los Aztecas Mexican Restaurant last week to replace existing gas lines. Gas line will be replaced along three blocks of Taylor, from Marquette to State Street.

Simultaneously, the expansion and improvements on the north end of Prairie du Chien are underway. The North Gateway Business Park expansion is almost done, Gates noted. This has included Vena Court and Antoine Way street extensions and water/sewer redirection. 

As the Taylor Street efforts take place, so will the overhaul of Campbell Coulee Creek. General tasks will be removing trees and debris to widen the creek at the channel and increase capacity, making bridge capacity greater, and rerouting storm sewer on Vena Court/Cliffwood Drive to the north to avoid connection with the creek.

The end date for this is also projected to be Nov. 1, so the contractors can lay asphalt at both the north and central city locations at the same time. 

Both components of this two-month project are being addressed with a $1,429,075 grant award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The federal share is 80 percent of that, and the city will pay 20 percent with capital borrowing.

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