Construction work on Kansas Highway 31 east of Osage City will be louder than normal starting Wednesday.
The Kansas Department of Transportation will have a series of controlled blasts as part of the highway’s realignment. Single blasts will take place every other weekday through Aug. 27 between 11 am and 1 pm. This will affect K-31 between Lewelling and Morril Roads, or about 1.5 miles of highway, and will help to reset the grade for the new stretch of highway near the existing road.
KDOT says highway access will be closed for up to 15 minutes at a time during the blasting process. Flaggers will stop traffic three minutes prior to a blast and there will be both pre- and post-blast sirens sounded in the work zone.
This is part of a larger project involving K-31 from Osage City’s eastern city limit to US Highway 75.
