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CASS COUNTY ROADWAY 18 EXTENSION STUDY – CASS COUNTY, ND 6 3.2 BRIDGE ACROSS THE SHEYENNE RIVER The existing bridge on 52nd Street SE that crosses the Sheyenne River was constructed in 1995. The typical section for the roadway is shown in Figure 2. The bridge spans are prestressed concrete and the bridge deck is cast-in-place concrete. According to the most recently available National Bridge Inventory (NBI) report from 2015, the overall condition of the bridge is “Good” with the superstructure and substructure both being categorized “Very Good”. The sufficiency rating of the bridge according to the NBI report is a 99.7. The channel bank is beginning to slump, and the embankment protection devices have widespread minor damage according to the NBI report. The bridge was included in Cass County Comprehensive and Transportation Plan’s “Cass County Bridge Condition Average” figure with a bridge condition average range of 7.1 to 8.0 out of 10, and in the “2037 and beyond” construction phase for replacement. 3.3 EXISTING UTILITIES IN STUDY AREA The study area does contain electrical, fiber optic, telephone, and rural water utilities. A utility locate and survey were not conducted for this study. Any utility information provided in this report and study are for information purposes only and are not intended to be used for design or construction. Based on a review of existing above ground utility structures along the corridor, several of the underground utilities run parallel to 52nd Street SE in the backslope of the north ditch of the roadway. Throughout the corridor, fiber optic and telephone underground lines are located north of the roadway and cross beneath the roadway to service residences on the south side of the roadway. Overhead electric utilities are typically located along the north field edges and run most of the eastern half of the project terminating just west of the bridge. There are also short runs of overhead electrical utilities serving the two western most residential and commercial locations within the study area. The overhead electrical lines do cross 52nd Street SE at three locations within a 0.5 mile stretch from the Sheyenne River bridge to the east. At the location of the Norman Lutheran church, the overhead power lines are located on the south side of the roadway directly across from the church. There are valve locations for Cass County Rural Water located north of 52nd Street SE in the study area. Based on plan documents for the Sheyenne River bridge, the rural water line does cross beneath the roadway at the ag residential locations just west of the bridge. 3.4 EXISTING LAND USES WITHIN THE STUDY AREA The Cass County existing land use plan contained within the Cass County Comprehensive and Transportation Plan provides the existing land uses in the study area that are based on the seven land use categories used in Cass County. Along the 52nd Street SE corridor in the study area, the primary land use “agriculture” with a few areas of “single family residential”, “farm exempt”, and “ag with residential”. The residential land uses are located near the Sheyenne River Bridge and at the east end of the study area. There is also a “commercial/industrial/multi-family residential” land use area for a manufacturing facility located 1.5 miles east of the intersection with CR 15. The Norman Lutheran church, located just east of the Sheyenne River bridge, is classified as a “single-family residential” in the land use plan. The very west 0.75 miles of 52nd Street SE is included in the City of Kindred’s Extraterritorial Area.