Rehab Work to Start on Southern Idaho Bridges

SHOSHONE, Idaho (Press Release) – Rehabilitating five U.S. 93 bridges between Shoshone and Carey will require short delays this week for traffic at each location. The Idaho Transportation Department's bridge work will ensure structural surface and integrity to extend overall bridge life.

Work begins today (Monday, April 11) at two bridges crossing the Little Wood River located at mileposts 199 and 200 in Blaine County. Work on three other bridges is expected to begin in May. Those bridges span the Milner-Gooding Canal at milepost 167 near Shoshone, the Little Wood River at 177 south of Richfield and Silver Creek at milepost 198 near the Lincoln/Blaine County Line.

This project will perform rehabilitation of the driving surfaces, concrete patching, and bank stabilization. Work is expected to be completed by mid-June.

The Idaho Transportation Board advanced a group of 27 projects in 2015 using funds allocated by the Idaho Legislature for the state’s first transportation-revenue increase in nearly two decades. Doing so enabled the advancement of dozens of other critically needed road and bridge projects statewide in the future. This bridge work is one of the initial group of projects.

Braun-Jensen Inc., of Payette, is the contractor for the $647,000 project.