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Preliminary engineering progressing on Middlebury-to-Shipshewana section
Progress continues on the steps needed for construction to begin on the Pumpkinvine corridor between Middlebury and Shipshewana.
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Preliminary engineering by DLZ, the engineering firm hired by Elkhart County Parks and the town of Shipshewana, is 50 percent completed, according to Larry Neff, Superintendent of Elkhart County Parks Department. That phase of the project includes identifying all wetlands in the corridor, any drainage issues, and doing environmental, archeological and historic assessments of the corridor. Preliminary engineering also determines where the vertical and horizontal placement of the trail will occur.
DLZ would like to have construction drawings completed by late spring or early summer 2008, when they would go to INDOT for approval. During this time right-of-way acquisition will occur. INDOT review may take three-to-six months for approval of the documents, so it is likely that bid documents would come out in fall 2008. Construction could begin in winter to spring of 2009.
More information about trail construction.
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