Warren County Highway Department is almost ready for the fiscal year, at least as far as striping, guardrails, road oil, and hot mix are concerned. 

The county Financial Management Committee met to consider several bids the department receives annually. 

“All these bids were the cheapest,” said Road Superintendent Levie Glenn. “As you see, there’s a memo there for the crushed stone bid and Eric Tanner with Rogers Group was the only bidder and it says that he would honor the same price $18.25 per ton delivered countywide.”

Asked Commissioner Scott Rubley, “Is that typically riprap price? Is that pretty good?”

“Real good price,” said Glenn. “If you bid it out to a contractor, they would have doubled it or more. It would have been $30 or $40 a ton so that’s a big saving.”

Committee members voted unanimously to award the following bids: 

• Guardrails contract went to Cumberland Guardrail

• Road oil contract went to Hudson Materials

• Hot Mix went to Tinsley Asphalt

• High performance cold mix went to Hudson Materials

• Two crushed stone contracts went to Rogers Group

• Striping went to Volunteer Striping

• Four different types of pipes went to Contech

• HDPE smooth interior corrugated pipe went to Williamson Pipe Co.

• Chemical mowing of guardrails went to NaturChem

Glenn said he’s particularly glad to get the crushed rock bid approved because stabilizing Turner’s Bend Road in Irving College is one of the main items due to the class III riprap that’s required for repairs.

“We are doing this project in-house to keep the cost down so Rogers Group will produce the rock at the local quarry and haul it to the job site then the Highway Department will take it from there,” explained Glenn.

Although Glenn said they are still waiting on permitting, he hopes to start the Turner’s Bend project sometime in December while estimating two to three months before completion, if weather permits.

“We’ll be as aggressive as possible,” assured Glenn.