Fillmore project to include milling of street surface

Friday, September 20, 2013

FILLMORE -- The inconvenience of several weeks of construction work on Main Street should come to a happier end than previously believed for the Town of Fillmore.

Work has been going well on the project to add storm sewers along Main Street from Cemetery Road to Fillmore Elementary School -- so well, in fact, that new work has been added to the project with no out-of-pocket expense to the town.

The Fillmore Town Council on Wednesday approved a change order that will add milling of the length of street in addition to the surfacing work that originally constituted the roadway restoration phase of the project.

In the original proposal, Eagle Valley was to rebuild the street in the sections torn up for the project before laying a one-inch layer of asphalt over the entire surface.

In the interest of improving the street even more, the undisturbed areas of the street will now be milled and the street regraded for two 10-foot lanes with a 2-percent slope.

A three-inch hot mix asphalt base will be laid, followed by a one-inch hot mix surface.

The two required change orders for this additional work will add $41,319.83 to the Eagle Valley bid of $548,633, for a total of $589,952.83.

With the town having received a $590,450 grant from the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs, this still leaves a surplus of $497.17.

As of early September, the estimated completion date of the project was Oct. 1. It is unclear how the change order coupled with recent rains have changed the schedule.

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