ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in the Northwest Missouri region planned for the week of July 17 – 23 from the Missouri Department of Transportation. In addition to the work listed below, there may be pothole patching, bridge maintenance, striping, brush cutting, guardrail repairs and other road work conducted throughout the region. Many of these will be moving operations and could include lane closures with delays. All scheduled maintenance and construction projects are subject to change.

MoDOT reminds the public to stay alert, watch for road work, buckle up, slow down, and drive with extreme caution through work zones and in changing weather conditions.

For more information about a project, please contact MoDOT at 1-888-ASK-MoDOT or visit modot.org/northwest.

Andrew County

• Route H – From Route V (Nodaway County) to Route Y for pothole patching, July 17
• Business Loop 29 (Belt Highway) – From U.S. Route 59 to U.S. Route 169 (Rochester Road) (Buchanan County) for a resurfacing project, July 17 – 22. Work will be done between the hours of 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. nightly.
• Route N – From Route M (Nodaway County) to Route B for pothole patching, July 19

Atchison County

• Interstate 29 – Pothole patching, July 17 – 19
• Route 111 – At the I-29 Overpass Bridge for maintenance, July 17 – 21. A temporary traffic signal will direct traffic through the work zone.
• Route B – Pothole patching, July 20 – 21

Buchanan County

• Route DD – At the Bee Creek Bridge for maintenance, July 17 – 19. One lane will remain closed overnight. A temporary traffic signal has been installed to direct traffic through the work zone.
• U.S. Route 36 – Milling and pothole patching, July 17 – 20
• Route 371 – From Route CC to Route 752 for pavement repair, July 17 – 21. One lane will remain closed overnight. A temporary traffic signal has been installed to direct traffic through the work zone.
• Business Loop 29 (Belt Highway) – From U.S. Route 59 (Andrew County) to U.S. Route 169 (Rochester Road) for a resurfacing project, July 17 – 22. Work will be done between the hours of 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. nightly.
• U.S. Route 36 – One mile east of Route AC for a bridge project, July 17 – 22
• Route 6 – From I-29 to Woodbine Road for a sidewalk improvement and resurfacing project, July 17 – 23
• Route DD – CLOSED at I-29 for a culvert replacement, July 18, 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. No access to Route DD Eastbound from I-29.

Caldwell County

• Route KK – Pothole patching, July 17
• U.S. Route 36 – Westbound from Route M to NE Spring Hill Road for pavement repair, July 17 – 20
• Route N – Pothole patching, July 19
• Route N – From the Carroll County line to Route D for pothole patching, July 20

Carroll County

• Route U – CLOSED from County Road 231 to County Road 241 for a culvert replacement, July 18, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Route KK – From the Carroll County line to Route D for pothole patching, July 18, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Route N – Pothole patching, July 20

Chariton County

• Route E – At the Turkey Creek Bridge for maintenance, July 17
• Routes 5, 129 and DD – Pothole patching, July 17 – 21
• Route E – At the Yellow Creek Bridge for maintenance, July 18

Daviess County

• U.S. Route 69 – Shoulder work, July 17 – 18
• U.S. Route 69 – From U.S. Route 136 (Harrison County) to Route T for shoulder work, July 17 – 19
• Route UU – Drainage work, July 17 – 21
• U.S. Route 69 – From Pence Road (DeKalb County) to I-35 for a resurfacing project, July 17 – 22. Includes a 10-foot width restriction.

DeKalb County

• U.S. Route 69 – From Pence Road to I-35 (Daviess County) for a resurfacing project, July 17 – 22. Includes a 10-foot width restriction.

Gentry County

• Route N – CLOSED from 245^th Street to 250^th Street for a culvert replacement, July 17, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• U.S. Route 169 – From the city limits of Stanberry to Route 31 for a resurfacing project, July 17 – 22
• Route F – From Saddle Soap Hill Trail to 546^th Road for drainage work, July 18 – 19
• Route DD – CLOSED for a culvert replacement, July 19, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Grundy County

• Routes B and Y – Pothole patching, July 17 – 21

Harrison County

• U.S. Route 69 – From U.S. Route 136 to Route T (Daviess County) for shoulder work, July 17 – 19
• Route 46 – From just east of the city limits of Hatfield to Route D for drainage work, July 18 – 19
• Route P – CLOSED from U.S. Route 69 to Route BB for a culvert replacement, July 18 – 19, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Holt County

• U.S. Route 59 – From the city limits of Oregon to the city limits of Mound City for shoulder work, July 17 – 21
• I-29 – At the Davis Creek Bridge for a bridge replacement project. July 17 – 22. I-29 will be narrowed to one lane in each direction.

Linn County

• Route B – From Route 5 to Route Y for pothole patching, July 17
• Route 5 – From Route B to the city limits of Browning for pothole patching, July 17 – 18
• Route 5 – From Route B to U.S. Route 36 for pothole patching, July 18 – 19
• Route 130 – From U.S. Route 36 to Route YY for pothole patching, July 19 – 20
• Route B – From U.S. Route 36 (Livingston County) to Route 139 for pothole patching, July 20 – 21

Livingston County

• Route C – From U.S. Route 36 to Route Z for pothole patching, July 17 – 19
• Route B – From U.S. Route 36 to Route 139 (Linn County) for pothole patching, July 20 – 21

Mercer County

• Route D – From U.S. Route 136 to U.S. Route 65 for sealing, July 17 – 21
• U.S. Route 136 – From U.S. Route 65 to Route 139 (Putnam County) for pothole patching, July 17 – 21

Nodaway County

• Route H – From Route V to Route Y (Andrew County) for pothole patching, July 17
• Route N – From Route M to Route B (Andrew County) for pothole patching, July 19
• Route J – From Route M to U.S. Route 136 for pothole patching, July 20
• Route E – From U.S. Route 136 to Route 246 for pothole patching, July 21

Putnam County

• U.S. Route 136 – From U.S. Route 65 (Mercer County) to Route 139 for pothole patching, July 17 – 21

Sullivan County

• Route 5 – From Route MM to the city limits of Browning for slide repair, July 17 – 22
• Route 6 – From the city limits of Milan to the city limits of Green City for slide repair, July 17– 22
• Route C – From Route 5 to Route 129 for a resurfacing project, July 17 – 22. Includes a 10-foot restriction.

Worth County

• Route 246 – CLOSED at the Platte River Bridge for a bridge replacement project. The bridge will be closed through September.
• Route B – Drainage work, July 17
• Route W – Drainage work, July 20 – 21

Some projects and changes will soon be underway within the Buchanan County Corrections Division. 

According to Buchanan County Sheriff Bill Puett, an electronic refitting of the correctional division will start August 1st. 

“We’re going to ask people to be patient with us because we’re going to have to take all the electronics down which means everything is going to go back to hard keys until they get the electronic replaced,” Puett said. 

Puett said the electronics there are about 30-years-old. 

“The things that drive these doors, and it’s really amazing to think about this, but the electronic circuit board that they can’t get parts for, can’t fix is almost the size of a piece of paper and it’s only 128 MB of information,” Puett said. “So we have very antiquated technology that’s been opening and driving the electronics in the doors and all those things in the correctional facility and so now, 30 some years later, we’re going to get all that upgraded.” 

Puett said the project should take approximately three months. Puett said another change will be hours, including visitation hours for the general public. 

“The reason is some internal issues to assist staff but it also is going to be a win-win, it’s going to be a win for staff, it’s going to be a win for the public,” Puett said. “And currently, when people need to bring property in for inmates or they need to have that property released if somebody goes to prison or whatever the case is, they have a really short time on Saturday and they do it once during the week in the evenings.” 

Puett said in an effort to make things easier for people with busy schedules, they’re going to go to a Saturday and Sunday visitation schedule. This will allow an extra day for visitation. 

Puett said they will also require people to call in to schedule when they are going to pick up or drop off property. According to Puett, those changes will be implemented on July 25th.

In a news release issued Friday, foresters with the Missouri Department of Conservation confirmed the presence of the emerald ash borer (EAB) in Andrew County. 

The pest has now been detected in 38 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis. 

EAB is a small, metallic green beetle native to Asia that only attacks ash trees. The adult beetle does very little damage—it is actually the larval stage that causes tree death. EAB larvae bore into the vascular layer beneath the bark of ash trees, creating distinct S-shaped galleries that slowly cut off the flow of water and nutrients from roots to the rest of the tree. Unfortunately, EAB kills over 99 percent of the ash trees it attacks within 3-4 years of infestation. 

The pest was found in Buchanan County in 2015 and DeKalb County in 2016. 

Local outdoorsman Kyle Carroll said he’s heard that EAB could eventually impact every ash tree in the United States. 

“That’s hard to believe when you look around and just how many ash trees are out there and every spring there’s a gazillion of them coming up from seed,” Carroll said. “So it’s hard to imagine and I don’t mean that they’re going to go extinct, I’ve never heard anybody say that, but it is going to affect all the trees.” 

Carroll said there are some options for treatment. According to the MDC, insecticides available at home improvement stores work best on trees smaller than 20-inches in trunk diameter (measured 4.5-feet from the ground). Trees larger than that size require insecticides available only to licensed applicators. 

For more information on protecting your ash tree from EAB, click here. 

For a map of EAB’s spread across Missouri and detailed information on identification, visit eab.missouri.edu.

Atchison’s 21st annual Amelia Earhart Festival is going on this weekend.

Lakefest featuring Big & Rich, Cam and Erik Dylan takes place beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday at Warnock Lake.

Events continue into Saturday beginning with a 7 a.m. 2K/8K Fun Run-Walk at the YMCA located at 317 Commercial.

Here are some events on the schedule for Saturday:

Fly-In at Amelia Earhart Airport – 8 a.m. to noon, 16701 286th Road

Muriel 1935 Lockheed Electra L-10-E – 9 a.m. to noon, 16701 286th Road

Pioneering Achievement Award Luncheon – 12:30 p.m., Benedictine College, 1020 N. 2nd

Food, crafts and Music – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 500, 600 and 700 blocks of Commercial

Music on the Riverfront – 4:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m., Riverfront Park

“Concert in the Sky” Fireworks Show – After dark, on the banks of the Missouri River

For more information, click here.