Dunn County plans Hwy. D road project from north of Tainter Town Hall to Hwy. 25 in 2025
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By LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — Dunn County is planning to repave and widen county Highway D/G from just north of the Tainter Town Hall at 816th Avenue to state Highway 25 in 2025.
The plan is to complete the road project in 2025, said Dustin Binder, Dunn County highway commissioner, at a meeting of the Dunn County Highway Committee on December 11.
The engineering is nearly finished, and a sales study is being completed for the value of the properties the county would have to purchase in order to widen the road in places, he said.
The county has a 66-foot right-of-way for Highway D and will need another 10 feet or 15 feet more in certain spots, Binder said.
The road will have wider shoulders, so the ditches must be moved out farther, and to widen the road, Dunn County will have to purchase “a little bit of right-of-way,” he said.
The process for purchasing property has ben started, so the plan is to complete purchasing real estate so the project can be done in 2025, Binder said, adding that funds have been allocated for the project in the 2025 budget.
The Lamb’s Creek bridge, a wooden structure just west of Jake’s Supper Club and the Pioneer Grill and Saloon, also will be replaced, he said.
“For some reason it has a sidewalk — a sidewalk to nowhere, is basically what we call it,” Binder said.
The sidewalk will be removed, and the bridge will have a timber deck with an updated railing to accommodate the wider roadway, he said.
The road will have to be shut down for two weeks, but there is no timeline yet for when that will occur, Binder said.
The road project is contingent upon Dunn County being able to purchase right-of-way, he said.
“We cannot build the road without real estate,” Binder said.
“We are hopeful that everything will go smooth,” he said.
2024 project costs
During the December 11 meeting, Binder also provided an update on 2024 project costs to the highway committee.
All together, road projects completed in 2024 had an estimated cost of $16.1 million, but the actual cost was $15.2 million, according to information Binder provided to the committee.
Dunn County will receive $8.025 million in funding from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation on the $15.2 million in road projects, so that Dunn County’s cost ultimately will be $7.16 million.
Here are the county highway road projects completed in 2024:
• Highway Z (90th Avenue to Highway D) — 1.59 miles; estimated cost of $617,447 and actual cost of $667,247.
• Highway VV (from Highway VVV to Highway VV) — 3.92 miles; estimated cost of $829,731 and actual cost of $1,345,941. The original plan was to do an overlay, but then the project ended up as pulverizing and repaving, which costs more than an overlay, Binder said. Dunn County will receive $256,990 from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
• Highway H — (from Village of Elk Mound to State Highway 29) — 1.36 miles; estimated cost of $414,522, while the actual cost was $405,143.
• Highway H (from state Highway 85 to Highway T) —2.5 miles; project cost of $634,410, and an actual cost of $559,852.
• Highway M (from state Highway 64 to Sand Creek) — 1.50 miles; estimated project cost of $464,300; actual cost $356,161.
• Old Highway E (Highway E to Termini) — .42 miles; $105,000 estimated cost; actual cost of $105,205.
• Highway B (Highway 12/29 to I-94) — 1.25 miles; $7.5 million estimated cost; $6,985,403 actual cost; reimbursement of $5,588,322 from WisDOT.
• Highway B (I-94 to Packer Drive) — 1 mile; estimated cost of $4,031,335; actual cost of $3,289,011; $1 million reimbursement from WisDOT.
• Highway D (420th Street to Highway K) — $318,700 estimated cost; actual cost $318,700; $254,960 reimbursement from WisDOT.
• Four different bridges — $315,380 estimated cost; actual cost of $315,380; $252,304 reimbursement from WisDOT.
• Bridge (Highway C/Muddy Creek) — estimated cost of $888,452; actual cost $840,235; $672,188 reimbursement from WisDOT.
