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Columbiana County’s 13 ODOT projects total $15.7M for 2010
By Denise Dick
By DENISE DICK
WELLSVILLE
The largest Ohio Department of Transportation project in Columbiana County this year is the $5.2 million project at the Columbiana County Port Authority’s Wellsville Intermodal Port Facility.
The project is funded with federal-stimulus dollars.
ODOT District 11, which includes Columbiana County, announced Thursday projects slated for the 2010 construction season.
This marks the largest construction season in state history, ODOT said.
It includes 13 projects totaling about $15.7 million in Columbiana County.
“It helps the region,” said Tracy Drake, chief executive officer of the port authority, of the project. “The facility is intermodal, which means it can work with different modes of transportation.”
The project involves an overhead-bridge crane and conveyor system at the Wellsville facility.
“If a company needs to move [goods] by barge, rail or truck, they can choose which one to use,” Drake said. “That usually has a good effect on the bottom line. A company can choose whatever mode is the cheapest and the fastest.”
The facility has a crane that enables material to be loaded from barge to truck or vice versa. The project extends that system over nearby railroad tracks, allowing materials to be moved from barge to truck to rail, Drake said.
Work, which started last month, is expected to be completed in September.
“We started work on the Wellsville facility several years ago,” Drake said. “We added a new interchange, water and sewer, access roads. The crane system is another piece of that project.”
Another major ODOT project involves resurfacing state Route 11.
The four-lane resurfacing project runs from just north of state Route 154 at Lisbon to state Route 164 near Leetonia.
Work on the roughly $4 million project started earlier this month and is slated for completion in August.
Becky Giauque, ODOT District 11 spokeswoman, said this construction season is larger than ever because of the federal- stimulus money received by the state last year.
With stimulus projects, new construction and ongoing work, the state will see about $4 billion in work this summer, she said.
Ohio Department of Transportation District 11 announced projects Thursday planned for the 2010 construction season. Some of the major projects:
Wellsville Intermodal Port Facility, $5.2 million.
State Route 11, resurfacing of four lanes from just north of the state Route 154 Interchange at Lisbon to state Route 164 near Leetonia, $4 million.
Knox School Road relocation, just north of state Route 172 in Knox Township, $2.9 million.
State Route 45, two-lane resurfacing, from McCracken Road south of Salem to U.S. Route 62 in Salem, and state Route 558 from state Route 45 at Teegarden to state Route 517 at East Fairfield and from state Route 7 at East Fairfield to state Route 46 south of New Waterford, $2.5 million.
State Route 11, four-lane resurfacing, from U.S. Route 30 near West Point to state Route 154, $1.6 million.
Bradshaw Avenue, major reconstruction, from Walnut Street to Ambrose Avenue in East Liverpool, $1.6 million.
U.S. Route 30, two-lane resurfacing, from Lisbon’s east corporation line to Route 11, $1.5 million.
State Route 164, two-lane resurfacing, from Saltwell Road north of Lisbon to Miller Road and state Route 267 from Lisbon Street in La Croft to Route 7, $1.3 million.
U.S. Route 30, two-lane resurfacing, from the Stark County line to Hanoverton, $1.3 million.
Source: ODOT District 11