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- 1998
REVIEW
- Projects
and Activity
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Report.
Butler County Engineer's
Office employees worked a total of 140,827 hours with an average
of 104 employees during 1998. Progressive
and cost-efficient engineering define a BCEO tradition concerned
with building a safer transportation system for Butler County
motorists. The evidence is on the roads you drive. The specifics
are outlined in this Report.
During 1998, the Butler
County Engineer's Office completed:
- 10 bridge projects
- 9 culvert projects
- 3 intersection projects
- 3 roadway improvement
projects
- 51 miles of paving
- Center and edge line
striping of numerous roads
- 5 Block Grant projects
Additionally, the BCEO
managed construction of one project for the Transportation Improvement
District (TID):
- Muhlhauser Road Extension
bridge construction
The above list does
not include routine activities such as general design and engineering,
commercial and residential development services, tax mapping
services, and day-to-day roadway maintenance such as signing,
mowing, drainage, and snow and ice control. As you can see, the
BCEO is a multi-faceted, full-service agency covering all facets
of road and highway transportation in Butler County.
For a detailed review
of 1998 activity, please read on.
1998
SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT IN BUTLER COUNTY
Liberty Township led Butler
County in subdivision development during 1998.
Unincorporated
Areas
|
Township |
New Subdivision
Plats |
New Lots |
Acres Developed |
New Streets |
Miles of New Streets |
|
Fairfield |
8 |
340 |
110 |
21 |
2.8 |
|
Hanover |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0.1 |
|
Lemon |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Liberty |
20 |
580 |
335 |
42 |
6.3 |
|
Madison |
1 |
13 |
18 |
1 |
0.2 |
|
Milford |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Morgan |
1 |
6 |
15 |
1 |
0.3 |
|
Oxford |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Reily |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Ross |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
St. Clair |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Union |
6 |
88 |
70 |
10 |
1.8 |
|
Wayne |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
36 |
1027 |
548 |
76 |
11.5 |
Incorporated
Areas
|
Township |
New Subdivision
Plats |
New Lots |
Acres Developed |
New Streets |
Miles of New Streets |
|
College Corner |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Fairfield |
8 |
166 |
139 |
19 |
2.7 |
|
Hamilton |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Jacksonburg |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Middletown |
4 |
48 |
53 |
4 |
0.4 |
|
Millville |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Monroe |
5 |
85 |
84 |
9 |
1.5 |
|
New Miami |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Oxford |
2 |
16 |
6 |
2 |
0.2 |
|
Seven Mile |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Sharonville |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Somerville |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Trenton |
12 |
304 |
98 |
22 |
1.9 |
|
Total |
31 |
619 |
380 |
56 |
6.7 |
TAX
MAP SUMMARY
|
Activity |
1998 |
1997 |
|
Sale of Plats |
$15,006.25 |
$12,103.75 |
|
Transfers |
17,216 |
16,521 |
|
Parcel Splits |
384 |
318 |
|
Survey Plats Recorded |
466 |
387 |
|
House #s Assigned |
637 |
781 |
|
House #s Verified |
1,236 |
1,081 |
|
Bonds Recorded |
5 |
17 |
|
Annexations Recorded |
1 |
5 |
|
Annexations Checked |
1 |
5 |
1998
Projects
This section includes
a comprehensive listing of all projects that were completed during
the 1998 construction year.
BRIDGES
The Butler County Engineer's
Office performs an annual inspection of all bridges on County
and Township roads. Some bridges receive inspection two or more
times per year due to their worsened condition. The BCEO had
inspection and maintenance responsibility for 369 bridges (structures
with a clear span of ten feet or greater) at the beginning of
1998. That number remained unchanged at the end of the year.
There are 34 bridges
located on State highways within municipalities for which the
State of Ohio has inspection responsibility but the County Engineer
has maintenance responsibility.
Nineteen bridges were
posted with load limit restrictions at the end of 1998. This
is down from over 40 load-restricted bridges just four years
ago. The County Engineer's aggressive bridge program is designed
to reduce and eventually eliminate all load-rated bridges.
- Bridge
summary 1998
- Total:
10
- Total
cost: $2,325,190
Federal
Funds
- Contract
1997-5 -- Bridge rehabilitation
- Corso Road Black Covered
Bridge
- Contract amount:
$608,102
- Under construction.
- Close-up.
-
- Contract
1998-501 -- Bridge replacement
- Cincinnati Dayton
Road Bridge #00.340
- Total project
cost: $631,640
-
- Contract
1998-502 -- Bridge replacement
- Layhigh Road Bridge
#08.055
- Total project
cost: $883,757
- This deteriorated truss bridge
was replaced by a new, safe structure.
- New bridge near completion.
-
- Local
Funds By Force Account
-
- Two
Bridge Replacements
- Indian Creek Road
Bridge #02.111
- Yankee Road Bridge
#01.100
- Total project
cost: $123,683
- Placement of new Indian Creek
Road conspan bridge.
- New Yankee Road bridge construction.
-
- Five
Bridge Deck Replacements
- Baker Road Bridge
#00.648
- Corso Road Bridge
#00.123
- Hamilton New London
Road Bridge #02.425
- Okeana Drewersburg
Road Bridge #02.366
- Somerville Road Bridge
#01.989
- Total project
cost: $78,008
- Old deck removed from Somerville
Road bridge.
- New decking placed on new
beams - Somerville Road bridge.
CULVERTS
The BCEO's Operations
Department is responsible for the annual inspection of all culverts
located on County and Township roads --- that number totaled
1,046 at the beginning of 1999. A culvert is a conduit running
underneath a road for the purpose of transferring storm water
runoff from one side of the road to another. Culverts are technically
classified as structures with a clear span of less than ten feet
and can be made of different types of material. Culvert replacements
are, like bridges, determined by the age and condition of the
structure and are often planned in conjunction with future resurfacing
projects.
BCEO culvert crew on Reily
Millville Road.
- Culvert
summary 1998
- Total:
9
- Total
cost: $97,441
-
- Local
Funds By Force Account
-
- Nine
Culvert Replacements
- Bell Road Culvert
#02.470
- King Road Culvert
#00.004
- Reily Millville Road
Culvert # 03.183
- Reily Millville Road
Culvert # 03.525
- Reily Millville Road
Culvert # 03.938
- Reily Millville Road
Culvert # 04.823
- Reily Millville Road
Culvert # 05.059
- Reily Millville Road
Culvert # 05.618
- Woodbine Road Culvert
#01.744
- Total project
cost: $97,441
-
- INTERSECTION
IMPROVEMENTS
-
- Intersection
summary 1998
- Total:
3
- Total
cost: $1,448,692
-
- State
Issue 2 Funds
-
- Contract
1997-CJ16A -- Two Intersection Improvements
- Tylersville Road at
LeSourdsville West Chester Road
- Tylersville Road at
Kennesaw Drive
- Contract amount:
$1,398,910
-
- Local
Funds By Contract
-
- Contract
1997-15 -- Intersection Signalization
- Beckett Road at Smith
Road
- Total project
cost: $49,782
ROADWAY
IMPROVEMENTS
- Roadway
summary 1998
- Total:
3
- Total
cost: $9,385,053
-
- Federal
Funds
-
- Cincinnati
Dayton Road from Ohio 63 to Oxford State Road -- Widen to five
lanes
- Contract amount:
$5,288,304
- (Cities of Monroe
and Middletown contributed funds to this project.)
- Construction north of Ohio
63.
-
- Ohio
747 from Ashley Drive to south of Smith Road -- Widen to four
lanes
- Contract amount:
$3,029,000
-
- Contract
1998-502 -- One Roadway Improvement
- Reily Millville Road
from Bunker Hill Woods Road to U.S. 27 - Widen existing lanes
and shoulders; realignment
- Total project
cost: $1,067,749
PAVING
The Butler County Engineer's
Office is responsible for 267.52 miles (centerline miles) of
roadway and has a 12-15 year paving program in place. This system
enables roads to be resurfaced on a regular basis and maintained
routinely in a more cost-effective manner. Many Township roads
that are substandard in lane width and those County roads that
meet minimum standards only, where feasible, are also being widened
to bring them up to modern safety standards.
- Fifty-one miles of county, township, and municipal
roads were resurfaced in 1998. This also includes berming of
all major roads paved.
-
- Paving
summary 1998
- Total
miles: 51.3
- Total
cost: $2,359,603
-
- Local
Funds By Contract
-
- Contract
1998-2 -- Paving of County and Township Roads in Hanover, Milford,
Oxford, and Wayne Townships
- Total miles: 16.5
- Total project
cost (includes inspection costs): $619,564
-
- Funded by the
County:
- Brown Road - Various
sections
- Oxford Trenton Road
- at Hamilton Eaton Road
- Stillwell Beckett
Road - U.S. 27 to Ohio 177
- Miles: 6.1
- Cost: $333,519
-
- Funded by Hanover
Township:
- Columbus Drive - Morman
Road to Ross Hanover Road
- Fatima Place - Rosary
Circle to Columbus Drive
- Queen Mary Lane -
Rosary Circle to curb section
- Rosary Circle - Morman
Road to Ohio 129
- Miles: 1.7
- Cost: $49,125
-
- Funded by Milford
Township:
- Carriage Court - Huston
Road to cul-de-sac
- Kinsinger Road - Taylor
School Road to dead-end
- South Street - West
Street to Ohio 177
- Taylor School Road
- Kinsinger Road to maintenance line
- Wallace Road - Lanes
Mill Road to dead-end
- Walnut Street - South
Street to North Street
- West Street - South
Street to North Street
- Miles: 2.5
- Cost: $58,665
-
- Funded by Oxford
Township:
- Beechpointe Drive
- Dead-end to dead-end
- Ives Wood Drive -
Oakhill Drive to cul-de-sac
- Oakhill Drive - Cul-de-sac
to cul-de-sac
- Redwing Drive - Beechpointe
Drive to dead-end
- Retreat Lane - Ohio
73 to dead-end
- Shadowy Hills Drive
- Patterson Avenue to Bonham Road
- Springwood Drive -
Oakhill Drive to Ohio 73
- Taylor Road - U.S.
27 to Nike Base
- Miles: 3.0
- Cost: $72,736
-
- Funded by Wayne
Township:
- Stubbs Road - Shurz
Road to Jacksonburg Road
- Tolbert Road - Waynes
Trace Road to Bridge #01.718
- Withrow Road - Cotton
Run Road to Jacksonburg Road
- Miles: 3.2
- Cost: $98,732
-
- Contract
1998-3 -- Paving of County and Township Roads in Lemon, Madison,
and St. Clair Townships and the Village of New Miami
- Total miles: 14.2
- Total project
cost (includes inspection costs): $432,130
-
- Funded by the
County:
- Augspurger Road -
New Miami corp. to Woodsdale Road
- Miles: 2.4
- Cost: $109,531
-
- Funded by Lemon
Township:
- Pinta Avenue - Minnesota
Street to Ohio 4
- Verity Parkway - Oxford
State Road to Ohio 4
- Miles: 0.6
- Cost: $43,674
-
- Funded by Madison
Township:
- Beverly Lane - Ohio
122 to cul-de-sac
- Dairy Lane - Trenton
Franklin Road to dead-end
- Emerick Avenue - Ohio
122 to dead-end
- Hill Street - Emerson
Road to Ohio 122
- Leichty Avenue - Trenton
Franklin Road to dead-end
- Marts Drive - Mosiman
Road to Circle Parkway
- No Mans Road - Elk
Creek Road to Dickey Road
- Poplar Street - Hamilton
Trenton Road to Elm Street
- Thomas Road - Ohio
4 to Franklin Madison Road
- West Alexandria Road
- Elk Creek Road to county line
- Miles: 4.5
- Cost: $89,739
-
- Funded by St.
Clair Township:
- Brandy Lane - Timmy
Drive to cul-de-sac
- Brian Drive - Curb
section to cul-de-sac
- Brooks Road - Eaton
Road to 0.9 mile east of Eaton Road
- Clint Drive - Gabbard
Drive to Brian Drive
- Fear Not Mills Road
- West Elkton Road to U.S. 27
- Gabbard Drive - Brian
Drive to Wayne Madison Road
- Hickory Flats Cemetery
- Various roads
- Riverside Drive -
Busenbark Road to Wayne Madison Road
- South Street - U.S.
27 to Clark Street
- Spring Road - West
Elkton Road to U.S. 27
- Timmy Drive - Augspurger
Road to dead-end
- Treiber Road - At
U.S. 27
- Warwick Road - Eaton
Road to West Elkton Road
- Miles: 6.1
- Cost: $164,261
-
- Funded by Village
of New Miami:
- Augspurger Road -
U.S. 27 to corp. line
- Miles: 0.6
- Cost: $18,137
-
- Contract
1998-4 -- Paving of County and Township Roads in Morgan, Reily,
and Ross Townships
- Total miles: 11.8
- Total project
cost (includes inspection costs): $658,392
-
- Funded by the
County:
- Bunker Hill Woods
Road - Reily Millville Road to Garver Elliot Road
- Gates Road - At Ohio
129
- Indian Creek Road
- Bridge #00.498 to Indian Creek Pioneer MetroPark
- Peoria Reily Road
- State Line Center Road to Ohio 732
- Stillwell Road - Bunker
Hill Woods Road to Ohio 732
- Miles: 6.6
- Cost: $416,664
-
- Funded by Morgan
Township:
- Chapel Road - Alert
New London Road to dead-end
- George Road - Schradin
Road to Okeana Drewersburg Road
- Fire house lot (Chapel
at Ohio 126)
- Miles: 2.4
- Cost: $119,063
-
- Funded by Reily
Township:
- Booth Road - Law Road
to township maintenance line
- Kehr Road - Stillwell
Beckett Road to township line
- Kehrwood Lane - Stillwell
Beckett Road to cul-de-sac
- King Road - Indian
Creek Road to State Line Center Road
- Nichols Road - U.S.
27 to township line
- Stahlheber Road -
Reily Millville Road to township line
- Miles: 2.1
- Cost: $86,296
-
- Funded by Ross
Township:
- Brown Farm Drive -
Curb section to new section
- Quercus Drive - Jennifer
Drive to cul-de-sac
- Silax Drive - Quercus
Drive to Platnus Drive
- Miles: 0.7
- Cost: $29,296
-
- Contract
1998-5 -- Paving of County and Township Roads in Fairfield and
Liberty Townships and the City of Monroe
- Total miles: 8.8
- Total project
cost (includes inspection costs): $649,517
-
- Funded by the
County:
- Cincinnati Dayton
Road - At Union Elementary School
- Crescentville Road
- Left turn lane at Ohio 747
- Smith Road - At Ohio
747
- Miles: 0.1
- Cost: $101,078
-
- Funded by Fairfield
Township:
- Cobblestone Way -
Red Coat Drive to Iron Kettle Drive
- Derby Drive - Dust
Commander Drive to #7315
- Faircrest Drive -
Millikin Road to Mill Crest Drive
- Fairham Road - Ohio
4 to Ohio 4
- Greatus Drive - Millikin
Road to Shannon Drive
- Green Crest Drive
- Mill Crest Drive to #5903
- Iron Kettle Drive
- Hamilton Mason Road to cul-de-sac
- Oak Ridge Road - Headgates
Road to Ohio 4
- Red Coat Drive - Cobblestone
Way to #7326
- Rivaridge Drive -
#3661 to cul-de-sac
- Shannon Drive - Liberty
Fairfield Road to Greatus Drive
- Vinnege Drive - Schroeder
Drive to #7503
- Miles: 2.8
- Cost: $150,770
-
- Funded by Liberty
Township:
- Cabernet Court - Chablis
Drive to cul-de-sac
- Chablis Drive - #6266
to dead-end
- Hamilton Mason Road
- Mauds Hughes Road to 500 feet east of Mauds Hughes
- Hankins Road - Mauds
Hughes Road to Yankee Road
- Kanaugua Place - Wyandot
Lane to cul-de-sac
- LeSourdsville West
Chester Road - Hamilton Mason Road to Princeton Road
- Liberty Township Hall
rear parking lot
- Liberty Township Park
walking trail
- Lynch Lane - Millikin
Road to cul-de-sac
- Mauds Hughes Road
- Princeton Road to N&S R.R. bridge
- Moselle Drive - #4306
to #4348
- Pauline Drive - Lynch
Drive to cul-de-sac
- Stonehenge Boulevard
- Princeton Road to Stepping Stone Place
- Wyandot Lane - Cincinnati
Dayton Road to Kanaugua Place
- Miles: 5.0
- Cost: $200,830
-
- Funded by the
City of Monroe:
- Amity Lane - Todhunter
Road to cul-de-sac
- Bendel Drive - Cul-de-sac
to cul-de-sac
- Dorothy Lane - Todhunter
Road to cul-de-sac
- East Avenue - Lebanon
Street to Ohio 63
- Lawton Avenue - Ohio
63 to dead-end
- Lee Price Avenue -
Elm Street to Ohio Avenue
- Macready Avenue -
Ohio 63 to Lee Price Avenue
- Seminary Drive - Britton
Lane to new pavement section
- West Elm Street -
Butler Avenue to South Main Street
- Woodcrest Drive -
Ohio 4 to Ohio 4
- Miles: 0.9
- Cost: $187,871
GENERAL/SEASONAL
ROADWAY MAINTENANCE
The Operations Department
of the Butler County Engineer's Office is responsible for all
Force Account projects as well as the general day-to-day maintenance
and seasonal-type maintenance of bridges and roads on the County
roadway system. This includes ditching and drainage projects,
painting and striping of roads, signing, patching, pavement repair,
bridge repair, berm work, guardrail repair, mowing, brush and
weed control, and snow and ice control. Also included is emergency
maintenance such as storm damage, downed trees, high water and
flooding problems, and any debris that poses an immediate safety
hazard to the motoring public.
- Total spent on
general maintenance: $818,281
-
- BCEO mowing crew.
- Ditching / drainage work along
Boyle Road.
- Erosion control and channel
work on Trenton Franklin Road.
- BCEO crews clean up storm
aftermath to prevent flooding and damage to bridge structures.
-
- 1998
Snow and Ice Control
-
- BCEO Snowfighters
prepare for winter each October with the annual snow
plow Roadeo. During inclement winter weather, twelve snow
and ice control routes are used to keep County roads safe and
passable.
-
- Only two winter storms
of any significance hit Butler County during 1998 and snowfall
totals were below normal for the second year in a row. Despite
the overall lack of snow, a major storm in early February dropped
up to nine inches across southern Butler County, while just a
few miles south in Cincinnati a total of 18.8 inches fell. Throughout
most of the year however, BCEO snow and ice control crews were
utilized primarily for spot treatments and general salting during
minor snow showers and light snows typically totaling less than
an inch. Motorists may visit our web site for status reports
on road conditions during inclement
weather.
-
- Total amount of
road salt used:
1,594 tons (1997
= 1,932 tons)
- Total man-hours
utilized for snow-and-ice control: 2,117 hours (1997 = 3,095
hours)
- Total labor cost:
$42,135 (1997 = $50,163)
-
- OTHER
- Community
Development Block Grant Funds
-
- Contract
B-F-97-009--1-C -- Five projects
- New Miami, Village
of - Street resurfacing
- Seven Mile, Village
of - Storm sewer improvements
- Somerville, Village
of - Street resurfacing
- Trenton, City of -
Curb and sidewalk installations
- Trenton, City of -
Storm sewer improvements
- Total project
cost (includes inspection costs): $223,102
-
- Local
Funds By Contract
-
- Contract
1998-1 -- Center line and edge line striping of various County
and Township roads in Hanover, Lemon, Liberty, Madison, Morgan,
Oxford, St. Clair, Union, and Wayne Townships and the City of
Monroe
- Total miles center-line
striping: 250
- Total miles edge-line
striping: 344
- Total project
cost: $113,892
- CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS MANAGED BY BCEO FOR TID
- Created as a result
of legislation passed in 1993, the Transportation Improvement
District (TID) is a funding agency designed to hasten construction
of projects in the TID area, which covers most of the southeast
quadrant of the County. The BCEO's experienced construction management
team leant support to one TID project last year.
- TID
Contract 97-09 -- Muhlhauser Road Extension, Construction of
two bridges.
- Contract amount:
$1,533,004
- New Muhlhauser Road bridge
construction.
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