Champaign County road to be closed for 6 weeks for bridge work

A Champaign County road will be closed for over a month for bridge work.

Lippincott Road in Concord Twp. will be closed to through traffic between Yearion Road and Upper Valley Pike for six weeks, according to a release from Champaign County Engineer Stephen McCall.

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The road will be closed beginning today for rehabilitation of an existing prestressed concrete box beam bridge over Mad River.

The work will be done by J & J Schlaegal, Inc. at a contract price of $198,842.50, the release stated. Funding for this project is through the engineer’s share of motor vehicle and license fess and gasoline tax.

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