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PASCAGOULA — Two major road projects in Jackson County will begin in 2010, a Mississippi Department of Transportation engineer told Jackson County leaders Monday.
One is the 611 flyover, which is a $40 million elevated interchange on U.S. 90 and Industrial Road, east of Pascagoula. The other is the Mississippi 57 bypass at Vancleave.
In Vancleave, property owners will be contacted next summer with offers as the state begins to buy 425 individual pieces of land to the west of Vancleave as right-of-way for the Mississippi 57 bypass.
In two weeks, MDOT officials will walk the center line of the route, but ground breaking won’t be until 2012.
As for the long-awaited 611 flyover east of Pascagoula, it could be under construction by mid-May or June, Kelly Castleberry, district engineer, told the Jackson County Board of Supervisors.
Board President Manly Barton pointed out the county has been working on the flyover project for 20 years and said, “I just hope I live to drive over that overpass. I hope I do it in my lifetime.”
The entire project will improve Mississippi 611 from Frederick Street in Moss Point to just past the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery. Phase I is the cloverleaf interchange that will bridge both the CSX railroad tracks and U.S. 90.
The idea all along has been to keep industrial trucks and 18-wheelers off the tracks and U.S. 90.
Castleberry told the supervisors that with no unforeseen setbacks, they will seek bids in March for the elevated interchange.
When the actual construction begins in May or June, traffic in the area of Industrial Road and U.S. 90 will not be interrupted, Castleberry said, because the new interchange will be constructed east of the current intersection.
He told supervisors Monday the state will adjust the grade or height of all county roads leading into or affected by the new interchange.
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