Jasper and Marshall County are equally sharing the cost of replacing a bridge on the county line which is over 100 years old. Jasper County Engineer Mike Frietsch says it’s time for a new bridge over Snipe Creek on North 115th Avenue West. 

“The current bridge is a riveted pony truss bridge constructed in 1921. The estimated remaining life in 2023 was six years. But we really don’t want to hang on to our pony truss bridges much longer, so we will leave it at that.”

Frietsch says the new bridge will be an 80-foot single span steel beam bridge with a concrete deck. All the steel for the new North 115th Avenue West bridge, east of Jasper County Highway S-62, is coming from Oden Enterprises of Wahoo, Nebraska. The company submitted low bids totaling $194,542.