Jasper County’s Secondary Roads Department is gearing up for gravel road maintenance and will be holding open to the public informational meetings about that across the county during March. Jasper County Engineer Mike Frietsch has changed the approach to gravel roads this year, and will be working to equalize gravel roads across the county this spring.

 “We are going to go back and try to resurface every Level A granular road with a similar amount of rock and bring them all to a similar condition. We are going to try and level set things this year. We are going to focus on resurfacing and blading. We are going to focus on getting this rock down early. Maybe as early as the middle of March if we can.”

The March open to the public informational meetings will all begin at 6:30 p.m.. The dates and locations are March 11th at the Prairie City Community Building; March 18th at Lynnville City Hall; March 20th at Baxter City Hall; and March 25th at Amboy Grange in Kellogg.

Earlier this month the Jasper County Board of Supervisors approved the County Engineer’s recommendation to accept a $21.94 per ton bid for contract rock hauling from Martin Marietta Contractors. 98,233 tons of roadstone is going to be placed on 622 miles of Level A roads in Jasper county at a total cost of $2,155,300.