BEATRICE – Eight bridges will be replaced with concrete box culverts across three southeast Nebraska Counties.

They are included in the Nebraska Department of Transportation’s latest list of bridge match program awards, announced on Friday.  The program allows state funding to cover up to 55-percent of each project cost, to a capped amount of $250,000. 

Two of the projects awarded in this recent round are in Gage County…..replacing bridges with concrete box culverts over Bottle Creek, two miles west and a half-mile north of Beatrice…..and a project three miles west and a half-mile south of Beatrice.

Two projects were awarded in Jefferson County.  Bridges will be replaced with concrete box culverts at Brawners Creek, southeast of the U.S. 136-Nebraska Highway 15 junction…..and another about four miles northwest of Harbine.

Saline County was approved for four bridge match program projects…..all replacing old bridges with concrete box culverts.  They are located five miles southwest of Pleasant Hill on Dry Creek…..about seven miles northeast of the Highway 15 and 41 junction on Brush Creek……. just over a mile northeast of Wilber…..and about 1.5 miles southwest of Western.

In all, 30 projects across Nebraska were awarded in the seventh round of bridge match program funding.  The money comes from Nebraska’s Transportation Innovation Act, passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor in 2016.