Marshall County communities are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the state to help with road projects.
The recipients of the fall round of Community Crossings grants were announced by the Indiana Department of Transportation Tuesday. The program covers 50 or 75 percent of the cost of qualifying road and bridge projects.
Bremen got the biggest grant locally, at over $472,000. The town is planning some mill and fill projects, along with other treatment options to extend the life of the pavement. The Town of Argos was awarded almost $433,000, Culver got more than $221,000, and Bourbon received almost $210,000.
Marshall County itself got a little more than $20,000 this round. That will help pay for crack sealing work on portions of Michigan Road, Elm Road, and Plymouth-Goshen Trail.
A total of almost $102 million was awarded to 241 Indiana cities, towns, and counties, during this round of Community Crossings. That’s more than $30 million more than what was initially announced. INDOT says the funding will come from the money left in the state’s local road and bridge matching grant fund at the end of the 2020 fiscal year, as well as money collected so far in the 2021 fiscal year. The fall round was postponed by a few months, after the decrease in travel caused by COVID-19 led to uncertainty with gas tax revenues.
