South Buckeye Street in Coffeyville has been closed due to construction for several weeks and Montgomery County has just approved some additional road work in the area.

 

 At this week's Montgomery County Commission meeting, Brandon Beurskins with Public Works told commissioners that a recent inspection of the Onion Creek Bridge revealed some weakness in the bridge deck. Beurskins says those weak spots need to be repaired.

 

Beurskins says adding the bridge repair to the current project means there will be little additional disruption to traffic because the bridge repair would be finished before the rest of south Buckeye is complete.

 

The cost to repair Onion Creek Bridge will be somewhere between $200,000 and $450,000 depending on how much damage there is to the deck, but that money will come from the Public Works budget without additional cost to the county.