BY JEFF CHUDZINSKINorth Country This Week

Updated: Story updated Sept. 10 at  9:13 a.m. to  correct a spelling error and update  completion times for various projects. 

CANTON -- Paving and bridge repair season is in high gear in St. Lawrence County as crews put the finishing touches on paving and bridge work but a few setbacks have delayed closing the season out. 

Interim-Highway Superintendent Ryan Herron provided an update to legislators during the Aug. 24 Finance Committee meeting, saying the work was coming along very well with the bulk of paving completed. 

In total, county officials agreed to pave 31 miles this year. 

Herron said those efforts are a combination of County Highway crews, local municipalities assisting, as well as contracts with firms like Barrett Paving. 

"That 31 miles was all cold-in-place recycle with a hot top," he said. 

At the time of the meeting crews had just wrapped up on County Route 47, with four sections of road left to be paved. 

Barrett was slated to come in for a top coat on other sections as well, he said. 

Paving on County Route 3 in Hammond was slated, with a second crew set to join the efforts to wrap up paving on County Routes 21 and 27 outside of Canton, he said. 

County paving crews are usually in full swing through September, with inter-municipal agreements  coming into play to wrap up those efforts. 

As for bridge work, Herron said a contracted job with Sheehan  to complete bridge work on McEwen Road and County Route 54 in Lawrence is slated to be completed in late-September and ready to open in early October. 

Herron said that project will see one large new bridge taking the place of two smaller bridges. 

Forms were set as of the Aug. 24 meeting, he said. 

On County Route 22 in the town of Fowler, residents will see a slight delay with the steel set to be delivered at the end of August. Herron said that the fabrication process would take about five weeks to complete, setting a site delivery date of late September or early October. 

Once on site, crews will take a four to six weeks to place the steel and wrap up the project. 

Herron said  expeced County Route 22 to be open in early November. Though County Civil Engineer Andy Willard said it's likely to completed in mid-November at this point in an email sent to North Country This Week. 

A bridge on Tooley Pond Road is also coming along, with beams set prior to the meeting. 

Heron said the County Highway Department is conducting work on that project and should be finished by the end of September. 

Two large culvert projects were also slated for Route 56, with a six week turnaround time and should be completed sometime in October.