Dearborn County, In. — The Indiana Department of Transportation will close State Road 62 south of Dillsboro on or after Monday, March 5, at a slide site 3½ miles east of the Ripley-Dearborn County line. Motorists will be detoured around construction activities via S.R. 129 and U.S. 50.
Beaty Construction will be completing a $5 million slide correction project that includes sites in both Dearborn and Ripley Counties.
The Boggstown, Indiana-based contractor will build mechanically stabilized aggregate retaining walls to retain twin embankments—measuring 315 feet and 495 feet in width—at the S.R. 62 site near Dillsboro. Wire mesh held in place by geogrid straps will be back-filled with stone to secure the slopes.
These slopes were graded and erosion control measures were put in place in November before this section of S.R. 62 could be opened to winter traffic.
