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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Engineer to close road for culvert work
ST. CLAIR TWP. — Beginning Tuesday, the Engineer’s office will close Augspurger Road for a series of three culvert replacements between Jackson and Gephart roads, and a fourth just east of Gephart Road.
Crews will begin at the westernmost culvert and work east.
Work time will vary and the following reopening dates are estimates:
The first culvert — Located 0.1 mile east of Jackson Road and 0.5 mile west of Gephart Road. Closing date: Tuesday. Approximate opening date: Friday, April 29.
The second culvert — Located 0.3 mile east of Jackson Road and 0.3 mile west of Gephart Road. Approximate closing date: Friday, April 29. Approximate opening date: May 4.
The third culvert — Located 0.4 mile east of Jackson Road and 0.2 mile west of Gephart Road. Approximate closing date: May 4. Approximate opening date: May 9.
The fourth culvert — Located five feet east of Gephart Road and 0.8 mile west of Timmy Drive. Approximate closing date: May 9. Approximate opening date: May 11.
The detour for all four culvert replacements is as follows: Eastbound Augspurger Road traffic will detour north on U.S. 127, northeast on Trenton Road and Riverside Drive, and south on Wayne Madison Road. Westbound traffic will reverse this route.
View Augspurger Road detour in a larger map
Community input is requested
HAMILTON — The community’s input is needed.
The Butler County Family and Children First Council and the Butler County Educational Services Center officials are asking residents to take a comprehensive survey that will help social service agencies best serve them in the future.
“The comprehensive picture will better equip all of us and the service agencies to come up with decisions of how we proceed and provide services and matching resources with services,” Butler County Educational Services Center Superintendent Dan Hare said. “This will provide authentic input from our stakeholders and it will help identify the critical conditions facing our community.”
Hare said this comprehensive look is for the benefit of all county and social service agencies so residents won’t be “bombarded” with surveys and assessments.
“We share in the work, we share in the risk, we share in the resources and we share in the reward,” Hare said.
Jolynn Hurwitz, executive director of Family and Children First Council said: “We think we can get a much richer understanding of the future considerations and conditions for the community if we look at all of our residents.”
Hurwitz said the survey questions are broad and not deep and intended for “an initial snapshot,” so the community reflection is accurate.
Hare and Hurwitz said people can participate in the survey for the next three weeks, and the final analysis will likely be in June.
To take the survey online, visit guest.cvent.com/d/hdq653 or to obtain a hard copy, call (513) 887-3710.
Detour in St. Clair Twp.
BLOG UPDATE AT 6:22 P.M. APRIL 23: THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. THE CLOSURE WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE.
In an attempt to be helpful as well as informative, I’m going to try to include some traffic detours as they come across my desk from the Butler County Engineer’s Office.
Here’s one in St. Clair Twp.:
The Butler County Engineer’s Office will close all four legs of the intersection at Jacksonburg and Morganthaler roads for about a week beginning Monday, May 2 for minor adjustments to the roundabout.
The detour for Jacksonburg Road is: northbound Jacksonburg Road traffic will detour northwest on U.S. 127 and east on Taylor School Road; southbound traffic will reverse this route.
The detour for Morganthaler Road is: eastbound Morganthaler Road traffic will detour south on U.S. 127 and northwest on Trenton Road and Riverside Drive; westbound traffic will reverse this route.
And for those visual people, I’ve included a map. Click the thumbtack for details. Let me know if this helps.
View Jacksonburg/Morganthaler detour in a larger map
