Fort Dodge is in the “mid-summer swing for construction,” Chad Schaeffer, the city’s chief development officer, told the City Council Monday evening.

That construction has so far shut down the Veterans Bridge on First Avenue South, caused traffic restrictions on the Kenyon Road Bridge and includes lots of street work.

Schaeffer said the council has awarded about $2 million worth of contracts for asphalt paving and concrete work.

“That’s pretty typical of where we’ve been running the last few years,” he said.

-Messenger photo by Bill Shea
Concrete pavement on Fifth Avenue South near 12th Street has been broken up and removed so that new pavement can be put in place. Castor Construction, of Fort Dodge, is doing the work.

At the moment, the most prominent road work underway is on Fifth Avenue South between Eighth and 12th streets. Castor Construction, of Fort Dodge, has the contract for the concrete work.

Other concrete work is set for:

• Kenyon Road between Triton Drive and Avenue C.

• Second Avenue South between A Street and Fourth Street.

• First Avenue South between 32nd and 42nd streets.

• 28th Avenue North east of 15th Street.

The $1.2 million asphalt paving contract will result in these streets being resurfaced this year:

• 29th Street between 10th and 15th avenues north.

• Elmhurst Avenue between North 19th Street and Dodger Stadium.

• Ninth Avenue North east of 16th Street.

• 8 ½ Avenue North between 18th and 20th streets.

• Third Avenue North between 20th and 22nd streets.

• Second Avenue North between 12th and 15th streets.

• Sixth Avenue South between 19th and 20th streets.

• Eighth Avenue South between 14th and 15th streets.

• South 14th Street between Eighth Avenue South and the Canadian National Railway underpass.

Fort Dodge Asphalt has the contract for that work.

The work on Veterans Bridge is expected to continue through late August or early September..

“There’s lots of work on the underside yet to go,” Schaeffer said.

Minturn Inc., of Brooklyn, has a $3,590,046.45 contract for that job.

Contractors working for the state Department of Transportation wrapped up some work on the Kenyon Road Bridge in May.

Schaeffer said the state will be getting bids for the demolition and subsequent reconstruction of the bridge’s westbound lanes next month. He said he will get information on the timing of that project in late summer or early fall.