After announcing a plan to use controlled blasts to help the realignment process for Kansas Highway 31 outside Osage City, the Kansas Department of Transportation revised the schedule for this week’s blasting.
Originally, blasts were set to take place Wednesday and Friday. Friday is still on the upcoming schedule, with blasting added for Thursday as well.
Single blasts are planned 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 reset the grade for the new stretch of K-31 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.
