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West Road Bridge Replacement on Track for Spring 2020

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Town officials last week approved a $100,000 contract with a Newington-based consulting firm to design a West Road bridge whose headwall failed during a storm last summer. 

The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with WMC Consulting Engineers. The new bridge will replace the existing one, located just north of the intersection at Turtle Back Road. The town moved the funding for the project up by a few months so that, following an estimated six-month design phase, the project can go out to bid in late-2019 for spring 2020 construction, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. New Canaan is expected to pay about $921,000 toward the total $1.8 million cost to replace the bridge, Mann said said. The Connecticut Department of Transportation has committed to a 50 percent grant that will go toward construction design and administration, Mann told the selectmen at their March 12 meeting.

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Town: Failing West Road Bridge Will Need To Be Replaced

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Though the town recently approved funds for temporary repairs, a failing bridge on upper West Road will need to be replaced, officials say. Located just north of the intersection at Turtle Back Road, the bridge saw its southerly headwall fail during a storm in June, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. A Newington-based consulting firm assisted with the repairs and since then, Mann said, the town additionally asked WMC Consulting Engineers “to do an analysis of the bridge and then put together a proposal.”

“We went out to the [Connecticut Department of Transportation] and were accepted for a 50 percent grant for the replacement of the bridge,” he said during a Dec. 17 meeting of the Board of Selectmen, held at Town Hall. New Canaan would pay about $921,000 toward the total $1.8 million cost to replace the bridge, he said.