POPLARVILLE —
A District Two bridge will get a nearly quarter-million-dollar overhaul after supervisors on Monday took bids to rehabilitate the bridge on Homer Ladner Road in the White Sand Community west of here.
Pearl River Co. consulting engineer Les Dungan handled the bid presentations to the board and called out the bids from four companies attempting to get the project.
The project is funded through a state program that helps replace or rehabilitate old county bridges.
“All the funding for this project are state funds,” Dungan said.
The lowest and best bid was determined to be Jordan Crane Service of Taylorsville, which bid $224,332 for the project.
Other bids and bidders included: Pearl River Paving at $245,584, Magco at $283,550 and JLB Levens Builders at $432,166.
Dungan said that since 1996 probably as many as 20 dilapidated and dangerous county bridges in Pearl River Co. have been replaced using funding under the program.
“It’s called the local systems bridge program by the state,” said Dungan, “and it funds the project 100 percent.”
Dungan said the Homer Ladner Road project will begin in about a month after all the paperwork is completed, and that the project will probably take to the summer to be completed, based on the weather.
He said a detour around the project will be provided and that residents needing to use the road should follow the detour signs which will be posted, and should be very careful when using the detour or unfamiliar roads.
He said the road will be blocked during construction.
The bridge project is located in Supervisor Joyce Culpepper’s District Two.
Another bridge, this one on Humphrey Road, also in the White Sand Community, is in line to be bid next, said Dungan.
Homer Ladner Road connects Hwy. 26 to Holden Road a few miles east of the White Sand Church near Boley Creek.
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This bridge on Homer Ladner Road in White Sand Community will be replaced after supervisors received bids on Monday at the board meeting. The work will begin in about a month and be completed by summer if weather permits. The bridge is located in Supervisor Joyce Culpepper’s District Two. Photo courtesy of Dungan Engineering
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