On August 5th and 6th, Reilly worked on grading South James Street and placing sub base on IA 44 from  County Line Auto to James Street. Halbrook Excavating finished installing storm sewer on North James Street.  CTI started trimming grade for paving from Brookside Drive to the west end of the project.

The Underground Company poured the concrete for the walls and top on Tuesday, August 3rd. 

Electric conduit installation between SE Main Street and SE Little Beaver Drive is completed. Pulling wires into conduits is completed.  Par Electric is working on connecting electric wire into switch gear and has completed some work on removing overhead electric lines.

Gas main construction activities along IA 44 are complete.  Installation of new gas main in James Street is completed.

Relocation of telephone lines has started on IA 44 and other phone line relocations on James Street are scheduled.

Traffic on S. James Street to and from west IA 44 is detoured through Kennybrook Subdivision and traffic on James Street to and from east IA 44 is detoured on SE Third Street and on SE Ewing Street.

North James Street  is closed to through traffic.  The detour for this closure  is NE Ewing Street from IA 44 to NE 4th Street to N James Street and NW 3rd Street from N James Street to NW Calista Street thence south on NW Calista to IA 44.