The Washington County Conservation Board is moving forward with phase two of paving the Kewash Nature Trail. 

In partnership with MSA Professional Services Inc. and DeLong Construction Inc. Washington County Conservation Executive Director Zach Rozmus says this work will continue the paving of the trail west of Highway 1 that occurred in 2018,“So where we left off of phase one we’re going to pick up and do roughly another 1.41 miles of paving all the way to the Crooked Creek Bridge. So essentially, following that DOT bid letting we were fortunate enough to have a very competitive bid letting process. We were fortunate to have a local contractor by DeLong Construction Inc. that was a low bid and the conservation board agreed to award the contract to DeLong Construction.” 

Construction will begin on August 16th and will be completed by Spring 2022. During that time the section that is scheduled for reconstruction will be closed at both ends. The east end of the closure will start near Willow Pond and the west end will be at the Crooked Creek Bridge. The conservation board states that they and MSA intend to take every precaution necessary to preserve the tree canopy within this section of the trail.