A very wet spring and summer delayed several projects for the Greene County Secondary Roads Department.

County Engineer Wade Weiss says due to some roads being completely washed out and trying to fix other troubled spots following several inches of rainfall this year, they have pushed some of their projects back to next year.  He points out that the southwestern part of the county was the hardest hit.

“With the topography we have with the flatter areas, we’ll have a lot of road crossings where the water cannot get through the culverts.  A lot of those culverts are designed for 25-year flood events, and as we all know, the weather was severe and much higher rainfall that would’ve been a 25-year event.”

Crews are continuing to do concrete patching on E-26 to Iowa Highway 4 and the Boone County line, along with P-14 south of Churdan to P-63, near Bagley.  However, some of those areas will be delayed to next spring.

The good news, adds Weiss, is that all the roads have been reopened for the winter season.