This week’s updates from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) on road construction projects for Barron, Burnett, Polk, Rusk, Sawyer, and Washburn counties.
Barron County
Highway: WIS 48
- Location: Between 22 ½ Avenue in the town of Rice Lake and County SS in the city of Rice Lake
- Schedule: July 17 to September
- Cost: $1.08 million
- Description: Replacing three culverts and the pavement above each.
- Traffic impacts: WIS 48 is closed to through traffic, with motorists detoured via 22 ½ Avenue and County SS.
Highway: US 53
- Location: 26th Avenue north of Rice Lake to Pine Grove Road south of Sarona
- Schedule: Sept. 5 to October 2024
- Cost: $21.89 million
- Description: Removing the existing and base course, placing a new base aggregate layer for drainage, replacing the pavement, rebuilding intersection approaches and installing cable barrier in the median between 26th and 27th avenues and a friction surface on the pavement in the same area to reduce crossover crashes.
- Traffic impacts: Motorists will encounter single-lane closures, and the speed limit will be reduced to 55 mph when lanes are closed.
Burnett County
Highway: WIS 70
- Location: St. Croix River Bridge west of Grantsburg
- Schedule: June 21 to October
- Cost: $1.25 million
- Description: Overlaying the bridge deck with concrete, making concrete structure repairs, repairing bridge joints, placing a polymer overlay on the sidewalk and replacing missing riprap, guardrail and approach pavement.
- Traffic impacts: The bridge is reduced to a single lane of traffic controlled by temporary signals.
Polk County
Highway: County K
- Location: Branch Wapogasset River Bridge west of Amery
- Schedule: Sept. 12 to November
- Cost: $595,977
- Description: Replacing the bridge.
- Traffic impacts: County K is closed from WIS 65 to County P, and traffic is being detoured via WIS 65, County F and County P.
Highway: US 63
- Location: St. Croix/Polk County line to County J south of the village of Clayton
- Schedule: April 12 to late September
- Cost: $5.71 million
- Description: Replacing the pedestrian underpass east of 7th Street in the village of Clear Lake; milling off 2 inches of asphalt pavement and placing 3.25 inches of new asphalt; adding shoulder gravel to accommodate the highway profile increase; realigning the approach of County A/F at US 63 to achieve better sight distance at the intersection; realigning the approach of 60th Avenue at US 63; expanding the intersection tapers to meet current design standards; replacing guardrail; and cleaning, lining or repairing culverts and installing new end walls on some structures.
- Traffic impacts: None; project complete.
Highway: WIS 65
- Location: North junction of Jewell Street in the St. Croix County village of Star Prairie to US 8 in the Polk County town of Balsam Lake
- Schedule: May 15 to September
- Cost: $8.85 million
- Description: Removing a portion of the existing asphalt pavement, overlaying the roadway with new asphalt pavement, creating a narrow, paved shoulder and reconstructing three areas of substandard vertical curves – one between the St. Croix/Polk County line and the curve just to the north and two stretches between 28th and 38th avenues in the Polk County town of Alden.
- Traffic impacts: None; project complete.
Rusk County
Highway: US 8
- Location: Cedar Swamp Road southwest of Weyerhaeuser to the Chippewa River in Bruce
- Schedule: July 10 to October
- Cost: $6.17 million
- Description: Removing a portion of the existing asphalt pavement; overlaying the roadway with new asphalt pavement; replacing culvert pipes; completing shoulder work;, replacing curb, gutter and guardrail, along with sidewalk curb ramps in Bruce; and placing new pavement markings.
- Traffic impacts: Motorists will encounter daytime lane closures controlled by flagging.
Highway: US 8
- Location: Old 8 Road/East 16th Street North in Ladysmith east to the Price County line
- Schedule: Aug. 21 to October
- Cost: $1.73 million
- Description: Replacing 35 culvert pipes and abandoning two more; repairing or replacing wing walls on three box culverts; replacing pavement above culvert work and guardrail; and placing new pavement markings.
- Traffic impacts: Motorists will encounter lane closures controlled by flagging and temporary signals.
Sawyer County
- No current projects
Washburn County
Highway: WIS 70
- Location: Yellow River culvert east of the city of Spooner
- Schedule: Aug. 7 to October
- Cost: $1.13 million
- Description: Removing the existing culvert, constructing a bridge, replacing the pavement on both sides of the structure and placing new pavement markings and signage.
- Traffic: The road is closed, with traffic detoured via US 53 and US 63.
Highway: Northbound US 53
- Location: Business 53 on the south side of Minong to Lakeside Road
- Schedule: July 17 to late September
- Cost: $2.32 million
- Description: Repairing or replacing concrete pavement, resurfacing the existing asphalt shoulders, refreshing the existing gravel shoulders, cleaning or repairing culverts, placing shoulder rumble strips and updating pavement markings.
- Traffic: Northbound US 53 is reduced to a single.
- WIS 77 East is closed at northbound US 53 for pavement patching, but the highway will reopen to traffic today.
Highway: US 53
- Location: Pine Grove Road southeast of Shell Lake to Wildcat Road southeast of Spooner
- Schedule: Aug. 15, 2022, to October 2023
- Cost: $16.8 million
- Description: Removing the existing pavement and a portion of the existing base course; placing a new base aggregate layer for drainage and new concrete pavement; replacing storm sewer, culverts, curb and gutter; reconstructing the approaches to US 53 from existing intersections; replacing shoulder rumble strips; and placing pavement markings.
- Traffic impacts: Motorists will encounter single-lane closures.
Highway: US 53
- Location: Wildcat Road southeast of Spooner to County A
- Schedule: July 31, 2023, to November 2024
- Cost: $22.74 million
- Description: Removing the existing pavement and a portion of the existing base course; placing a new base aggregate layer for drainage and new concrete pavement; replacing pavement on the interchange ramps at US 63 and WIS 70; replacing the pavement on WIS 70 between the ramp terminals; rebuilding existing intersection approaches; and rehabilitating the bridges on US 53 over the Yellow River and US 63 and WIS 70 bridge over US 53.
- Traffic impacts: Motorists will encounter single-lane closures.
Highway: US 53
- Location: 26th Avenue north of Rice Lake to Pine Grove Road south of Sarona
- Schedule: Sept. 5 to October 2024
- Cost: $21.89 million
- Description: Removing the existing and base course, placing a new base aggregate layer for drainage, replacing the pavement, rebuilding intersection approaches and installing cable barrier in the median between 26th and 27th avenues and a friction surface on the pavement in the same area to reduce crossover crashes.
- Traffic impacts: Motorists will encounter single-lane closures, and the speed limit will be reduced to 55 mph when lanes are closed.
Last Update: Sep 22, 2023 9:03 am CDT
