Culvert Repair

BOONE, Iowa---A long awaited culvert repair project will move ahead with the awarding of the contract by the Boone County Board of Supervisors. The project is not your ordinary culvert project. It's a large culvert, near Madrid, under the High Trestle Trail. The culvert received extensive damage during flooding in 2008. FEMA recently confirmed that federal funds are available to fix the damage. Bids have been reviewed with the apparent low bidder the Jensen Construction Company of Des Moines for nearly $687,000. The high bid for the work was about $1.1-million.