PennDOT to Replace Main Street Culvert over Wertz Creek in Sellersville Borough, Bucks County

PennDOT to Replace Main Street Culvert over Wertz Creek in Sellersville
Borough, Bucks County

5/22/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

Construction is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, May 30, to replace the
structurally-deficient Main Street culvert over Wertz Creek in Sellersville

Borough, Bucks County, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
(PennDOT)
said today. The new bridge is expected to be completed in September.

Over the next three months, crews will work to replace the existing
concrete
arch culvert with a new precast concrete box culvert.

During the operation, Main Street will be closed between Longwood Avenue
and
Twelfth Street. Main Street motorists will be detoured over Route 563
(Ridge
Road), Lawn Avenue, Route 309 (Sellersville Bypass) and Route 152 (State
Road).

Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the area.
Local access will be maintained up to the construction zone.

Built in 1937, the one-span culvert is 19 feet long and 47 feet wide. The
structure carries about 6,044 vehicles a day.

The replacement of the Main Street culvert over Wertz Creek is part of
PennDOT's $6.8 million project to rehabilitate five structurally-deficient
bridges in Bucks and Montgomery counties, three structurally-deficient
culverts
in Bucks County, and to stabilize a stream embankment at a bridge in Bucks
County.

Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor
on
the project that is financed with 100 percent state funds through Act 89,
Pennsylvania's transportation plan.

Work on the entire project is scheduled to be completed in late 2018.

For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those
made
possible by or accelerated by Act 89, or those on the department's Four and

Twelve Year Plans, visit www.projects.penndot.gov.

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