WIS 23 Expansion
Location/limits: USH 151 to Seven Hills Road
Length: 5.59 miles
Cost: $35 million
Schedule: Contract Completion Date of November 15, 2022
Description of work:
October 25 to October 29:
The contractor is working on the following items:
- Highway 23 eastbound (Wisconsin American Drive to County UU)
- Finish concrete pavement
- Begin curb and gutter
- Highway 23 westbound (USH 151 to Wisconsin American Drive)
- Form curb and gutter
- Highway 23 westbound (County UU to Seven Hills)
- Begin concrete paving
- County K south of Highway 23/Maryhill Drive
- Finish concrete sidewalk on County K
- Fine grade gravel for asphalt paving
- Highway 23 eastbound bridge over County K
- Continue pouring parapet walls
- County UU interchange
- Placing fill on the interchange
- County UU bridge over Highway 23
- Begin pier construction
November 1 to November 5:
The contractor is scheduled to work on the following items:
- Highway 23 eastbound (Wisconsin American Drive to County UU)
- Continue curb and gutter
- Begin concrete barrier wall
- Begin topsoil and landscaping behind curb and gutter
- Begin asphalt driveways
- Highway 23 westbound (USH 151 to Wisconsin American Drive)
- Place curb and gutter
- Switch traffic to the new lanes
- Begin grading the median
- Highway 23 westbound (County UU to Seven Hills)
- Continue concrete paving
- County K south of Highway 23/Maryhill Drive
- Topsoil and landscaping at new sidewalk
- Install light poles
- Begin asphalt paving
- Pavement marking and permanent signing
- County UU Interchange
- Placing fill on the interchange
- County UU bridge over Highway 23
- Continue bridge construction
- Retaining wall along Maryhill
- Continue parapet walls
Traffic impacts:
- CTH UU (South of STH 23) – Closed
- CTH UU (North of STH 23) – Closed
- CTH K (South of STH 23) – Closed – County K and new Maryhill is tentatively scheduled to be open early the week of November 8th.
- CTH K North (Highway 23 Intersection) – Closed.
- WB shoulder closure Whispering Springs to 7 Hills Road – Closed
- Northway Road – Closed
- Poplar Road – Scheduled to be closed October 28, 2021, for concrete paving
- Tower Road – Scheduled to be closed October 29, 2021, for concrete paving
- Taft Road – Scheduled to be closed November 1, 2021, for concrete paving
The following restrictions will remain in place.
- Northbound Mary Hill to westbound highway 23
- Southbound Whispering Springs to eastbound highway 23
- Westbound highway 23 to southbound Mary Hill
- Eastbound highway 23 to northbound Whispering Springs
Please use alternate routes to access these locations.