Manatt’s Incorporated has been awarded contracts for two Hot Mix Asphalt resurfacing and milling projects on sections of old Iowa Highway 163 leading to Prairie City and Monroe. The Jasper County Board of Supervisors approved the Brooklyn company’s low bids during this week’s board meeting. There were three other bidders on both projects.

Manatt’s submitted a $457,372 bid for resurfacing 1.3-miles of Quicksilver Avenue from just east of Iowa Highway 163 to Monroe. Jasper County Engineer Mike Frietsch says $752,861 was the engineer’s estimate for the project.

Manatt’s bid for .7-miles of resurfacing on Poplar Avenue from just east of West 116th Street East to Prairie City is $282,492. The engineer’s estimate was $462,858. 

Frietsch says both projects should be finished in early July. 

 “With 25 working days on Poplar Avenue and 30 working days on Quicksilver. But both projects are to start June 2nd.”

The other companies that bid on both projects were Grimes Asphalt and Paving Corporation, InRoads Paving LLC of Des Moines, and Des Moines Asphalt and Paving.