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Highway 50 Construction Project Through Yankton Nears the End

Highway 50 Construction Project Through Yankton Nears the End

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Major construction is done on the Highway 50 project through Yankton, and drivers will soon see the barriers, cones and barricades come down.

Greg Putnam, with the South Dakota Department of Transportation, is the project engineer…….

Putnam says the project took longer due to rain, and extensive underground work……

Putnam says there is a final punch list they are working through…..

The two-year project that rebuilt Highway 50 from Highway 81, two miles east through Yankton cost five point five million dollars. The final deadline is November twenty fourth.

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