Summer Road Construction Season Kicks Off in Leelanau

Down to the Lake by Mark Smith

Craig Manning of the Leelanau Ticker shares an update on Leelanau County Road Commission summer road construction projects:

According to LCRC Managing Director Brendan Mullane, the department just kicked off its biggest project of the year last week: a reconstruction of County Road 626 (Omena Road) between Jelinek Road and Overlook Road. That road is currently closed to through traffic, and will be for most of the month of May.

“It’s a full reconstruction of that roadway,” Mullane says of the roughly 3.6-mile stretch. “We did some culverts last year in advance of that project. Now, they’re crushing and shaping the road. Team Elmer’s is doing it, and they’re hoping to have it finished by Memorial Day.”

The only other LCRC projects that will require full road closures and detours this summer, Mullane says, are a pair of culvert replacements on the Crystal River.

Click over to read more, including information about Leelanau bridge projects that are on hold due to Federal funding freezes.