Location: Town of Burlington, WI · Client: Town of Burlington · Services: Design · Environmental Documentation · PS&E
The Town of Burlington selected Lynch to design the Bohner Drive rehabilitation between Fish Hatchery Road and Fishman Road under a three-party contract with WisDOT - proof that the federal-aid process works for local roads, not just highways.
The WisDOT Process, Working for a Town Road
Bohner Drive is a rural road whose asphalt was last placed in 2001, and it showed: base failure, surface failure, and vertical curves that no longer met standards. The Town of Burlington selected Lynch & Associates to design its rehabilitation between Fish Hatchery Road and Fishman Road under a three-party contract with WisDOT - the same delivery model behind our Mt. Tom Road and Spring Prairie Road bridge projects.
The design squeezes value from what is already there: the existing pavement is pulverized and reused as aggregate base, then capped with new base and surface asphalt. Where substandard vertical curves compromised sight lines, the design regrades the pulverized material to WisDOT standards - a safety correction folded into the rehabilitation instead of a separate project. Lynch's scope ran the full federal-aid checklist: project management, preliminary and final plans, environmental documentation, pavement design, geometric design, utility coordination, traffic management, construction staging, public involvement, and final PS&E documents. Construction is complete - Bohner Drive is back in service on its new pavement.
Projects like Bohner Drive are why communities keep us on speed dial for the WisDOT process: the paperwork is real, the standards are real, and a firm that runs them every year keeps a small project from feeling like a big one.
What We Delivered
Existing asphalt reused as aggregate base beneath new base and surface courses - full rehabilitation at a fraction of full reconstruction.
Substandard vertical curves regraded to WisDOT standards, improving sight lines and traveler safety.
Environmental documentation, public involvement, traffic management, staging, and full PS&E through the federal-aid process.
Utility conflicts identified and coordinated during design, keeping construction sequencing clean.