The Missouri Department of Transportation closed out its bridge inspection report for Worth County and presented their findings to the Worth County Commission Monday morning. There were 55 bridges and two culverts inspected. Out of those, 30 were rated “Good,” 16 were rated “Fair,” and 9 were rated “Poor.” None were rated below 4 on a scale of 10, which would require immediate action on the county’s part. There are four bridges in the county with weight requirements. If the weight limit falls below three tons, the state can order a bridge closed.
The state does inspections of county bridges every two years.
Among bridges of concern, the bridge on County Road 3, northwest of Sheridan, has the channel cutting hard on the bridge. The bridge on Goldenrod Trail, which was built in 1937, has a 14-ton limit. It is seeing erosion and the backwall is being undermined. There are two fracture critical bridges in the county; one of them, the Old 169 Bridge south of Grant City, is being replaced in 2026.
Worth County is in a better position than a lot of counties. There are 3,200 bridges in the 20-county area that the county is part of. Nodaway County alone has 300 bridges that the state inspects. Gentry County has 178. And Daviess County still has 12 truss bridges, of which one is in Old Pattonsburg that somehow survived the Great Flood of 1993.
The county received bids for brush removal. The next step will be for the county to send brush letters to landowners. Some have done brush removal work on their own.
The DOT sent a news release detailing road construction plans for Worth County this summer as well as a road in Gentry County. The DOT plans to replace a bridge deck on Route M near Denver starting April 21. It will be closed to traffic. Once construction is complete, crews will begin work on the Middle Fork bridge on 169 just south of Grant City and then the Zounds Creek Bridge on Route B in Gentry County. Work is expected to be done around October.
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