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Road Detours By Two Schools To Be Lifted Later Today
Jasmina Meyer/Highlands Today
From left: Greg Bachman, Bridge and Concrete Supervisor, and Harold Roebuck, Survey Crew Chief of Highlands County, measure an area off of Kenilworth Blvd for a catch basin recently in Sebring.
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Published: January 5, 2009
SEBRING - Traffic bound to Memorial Elementary School and Sebring High School should not encounter any road detours as students go back to school today.
Road construction at Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard was expected to be finished by 5 p.m. today.
The finishing touches on Kenilworth Boulevard and Highlands Avenue, where the western spoke of Kenilworth is getting a makeover, was also expected to be done later in the afternoon.
David Caisse, with the Highlands County Engineer's Office, said the Memorial Drive/Valerie Boulevard intersection is getting new turn lanes and work to improve road drainage.
The county is putting curbing, drainage and six culverts under Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard, Caisse said.
The culverts were placed along the sides of the roads as well to handle storm water runoff. That storm water will then discharge into a canal along Memorial Drive and eventually into Lake Sebring.
Plans also include creating several small retention ponds or retention-type canals in the swale, Caisse said.
Assistant County Engineer Elius Nortelus is the project manager the Kenilworth Boulevard project.
"We're paving right now as we speak," said Nortelus on Monday. "The striping and pavement marking should be completed by late this afternoon. We still have to do a little work during the week for sod and some sidewalk work, but the road should be reopened for vehicles by early morning before schools open."
On Kenilworth, the county did a full-depth construction that included new material shell rock, repaving, concrete sidewalks on both sides, curbing and drainage.
"We took advantage of when the school was in recess and we'll be finished before it reopens," Nortelus said.
Highlands Today reporter Joe Seelig can be reached at (863) 386-5834 or jseelig@highlandstoday.com.
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