Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Royal council discusses future infrastructure needs
The Royal City Council is mulling two options to renovate the pavement on Main Street, both of which will be costly.
A second estimate of what it will cost to repave Main Street in Royal confirms what the first one indicated – it will be expensive.
Several months ago a paving contractor estimated that to completely rebuild Main Street from Huberg Trucking to the fire station, as well as three intersections, could cost approximately $900,000. Brian Schmidt, an engineer with Kruse, Cate & Nelson, P.C., recently offered a similar estimate.
According to discussion at the July 12 council meeting, Schmidt also estimated that milling off 1-1/2 inches of existing pavement and then adding three inches of new asphalt...
