“It’s just reached the end of its useful life,” he said.
The road will be resurfaced from State Route 48 to Atchison Road, and the project will upgrade the curb, sidewalk, catch basins, chip seal, milling and asphalt.
It will be paid for in part by a government grant covering 52 percent of the repairs, up to $199,900, Spitler said.
Construction is to begin in September and finish by Oct. 31. Spitler said traffic would not be rerouted or detoured as lanes will be closed one at a time for the project. The roughly half-mile area between 1 and 500 E. Spring Valley where construction will take place is mostly residential, though the nearby Centerville Square Shopping Center has alternative entrances and exits for traffic on State Route 48.
Cincinnati-based Jurgensen Company will handle the construction, having submitted a bid for $368,038.76. They outbid one other company, the Dayton office of Roseland, N.J.-based Barrett Paving, which bid $385,620.65.
Commercial and residential development along State Route 48 has spurred a large amount of road updating around State Route 48, including a 2009 effort to repair the stretch of the road throughout Centerville and lower speed limits in some areas, and a 2010 effort in which Vectren Energy repaired its major gas transmission pipeline running beneath the road. Last year, the county replaced a 70-year-old water main beneath 48.
Last spring, the city also approved a major plan to enlarge the intersection of East Spring Valley and Clyo Roads, about a mile to the east as traffic has increased in the area. That project, estimated to cost $2.1 million, will begin in early 2014.
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