By BOB SHRALUKA
WZBD.com
The gas station/convenience store is gone, some of the street work has been done, the environmental study has come up clean, and so now it’s on to building the roundabout at Five Points in Decatur.
City Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert said at Tuesday night’s city council meeting in City Hall that the project is “on schedule.”
Tentatively, the work will begin the first week of June, according to Gilbert.
Sewer work will be done at the start, then after 2-3 weeks, the project will turn to concrete work. If all goes as projected, the project should be completed, at the latest, by the end of September, he said.
The Indiana Department Transportation (INDOT) is in charge of the project which will close the intersection for 2-3 months.
The contract was awarded by INDOT to E&B Paving, a Muncie firm which had the low bid of $2,493,109. Decatur’s match is 20% of the final cost.
The Decatur council recently approved the expenditure of $58,000 for excavation, sewer and sidewalk work, etc.,to be done in the area near the roundabout. Another expenditure, this one of $38,500, will provide irrigation for the vegetation that will be installed.
The roundabout will be the first one in Decatur and Adams County.
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