For Immediate Release:  Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011

Contact: Joel Flesner, 605-892-2872

Bridge Repair Work in Butte & Harding Counties

BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Transportation will begin work Monday, Oct. 10, on bridges on:

• Highway 85 at mile marker 92 over Four Mile Creek in Butte County
• Highway 79 at mile marker 166 over the South Moreau River in Butte County
• Highway 79 at mile marker 210 over the South Fork  of the Grand River in Harding County

The impact on the traveling public will be minimal.  Motorists should be alert to construction equipment and workers in those places.

The construction projects have an overall completion date of Dec. 5.

Quinn Construction, Inc. of Rapid City is the prime contractor.

For more information, contact Joel Flesner with the state Department of Transportation at 605-892-2872.

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