Ringgold County engineer reports progress on chip seal, mowing and bridge work

County Engineer Jared Johnson updated the Board on secondary-roads operations, saying crews were mowing vegetation along paved roadsides and Farm-to-Market gravels in the southwestern portion of the county and hauling rock to south central and southwest maintainer districts.

Johnson also reported crews were spraying brush around bridge ends and had picked up signs for P33, Diagonal and closure. On the J55 chip-seal job (from P14 to U.S. Highway 169), he said the remainder of chip rock had been hauled and stockpiled in the Redding yard, the road was swept for a second lift of sealcoat, and crews worked Thursday and Friday; trucking issues prevented the second load of oil from being delivered on Thursday, and "5400 lane feet of chip seat remains to comptete the project," the transcript records.