The Petersburg Road–Boonville-New Harmony Road intersection will be closed for more than four months beginning June 9, Vanderburgh County Engineer John Stoll said Thursday.
“This closure is expected to continue until October 31, 2025,” Stoll’s announcement said. “This schedule is subject to change if unsuitable weather conditions delay the construction.”
The closure is necessary to widen and reconstruct the intersection as a part of the final phase of the county’s $8.5 million Boonville-New Harmony Road reconstruction project. The project began last summer and is expected to wind up by the end of the year. It has involved numerous road closures throughout its phases.
This new closure will be the last one that affects through traffic, Stoll told the Courier & Press Thursday morning.
There will be two possible detour routes for motorists to take to get around the closure, Stoll said.
“One is Boonville-New Harmony, Baseline Road and Browning Road, or if you go on a detour around the south part of it, it is Kansas Road/(Indiana) 57,” Stoll said. “You go Browning, Baseline and 57, or you could go Kansas, 57 and Baseline.”
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Major Vanderburgh County intersection to close for 4 months
Reporting by Thomas B. Langhorne, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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