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Schedule:
Environmental Document Approval Date: 2010
Municipal Consent Approval Date: Dec-10
Geometric Layout Approval Date: Oct-10
Construction Limits Established Date: Pending Approval
Original Letting Date: 2011/2014
Current Letting Date: 2012
Construction Season: Stage 1 - 2012
Estimated Substantial Completion:
Project History:
Nisswa to Pine River
State Project No. 1810-92
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/d3/projects/hwy371/index.html
Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record
of Decision were issued in 2005. In 2007, Pequot
Lakes formally reversed its previous decision to
have the new highway utilize the existing highway
corridor and requested Mn/DOT to change
preferred alignment to a bypass of the
community. This caused the need for a
supplement to the completed Environmental
Impact Statement. This process was completed in
2010. Funding constraints have caused Mn/DOT
to delay this project several times since initiating
the project in 2002.
Project Benefits:
Improved safety, reduced congestion, correction of
design deficiencies
Project Risks:
Pequot Lakes bypass controversial, supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement may be
challenged, budget constraints may continue to
delay project to an undetermined times, turnover
of community leadership may cause significant
changes, continued development along the
existing corridor has the potential to cause
significant changes to the chosen alignment or
increase cost of required R/W
Annual Report on Major Highway Projects
Minnesota Department of Transportation
PROJECT SUMMARY
Hwy. 371
Project Description:
Expansion of 16 miles of existing two-lane
medium priority Interregional Corridor to a
divided four-lane highway facility. Project
limits include the communities of Nisswa and
Pequot Lakes (Stage 1 & 2) and Jenkins and
Pine River (Stage 3 - not programmed).
Environmental Impact Statement level
environmental documentation required as
well as Municipal Consent for each of the
affected communities.
Total Project Cost Estimate (millions)
29
78
114
Cass
17
Lake Shore
Date in which the project entered into the STIP:
Construction Letting:
Other Construction Elements:
Engineering:
Right of Way:
Recent Changes and Updates:
77
Jenkins
145
112
16
Pequot Lakes
168
11
Nisswa
Crow Wing
Layout: Bypass of Pequot Lakes, elimination of grade separated interchanges
It was delayed over the years because of department/district priorities and emphasis on
preservation. A Supplemental Final EIS was completed in 2010. Municipal consent was
granted in Pequot Lakes in Dec 2010. A small project has been scheduled for 2012 in
coordination with realignment of crow wing county Road 18 in Nisswa.
Key Cost Estimate Assumptions:
92.0
18.4
17.7
28.8
107
Baseline Est. Current Est.
Total: $ 156.9
Breezy Point
Construction cost estimates are adjusted to the mid-year of construction, using inflation rates provided by
OCPPM.
Alignment studied in Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement will not have significant
changes, 300' R/W corridor, R/W donation and spray irrigation field mitigation by Pequot
Lakes, no interchanges, turnback of existing Hwy. 371 alignment to County Pequot Lakes
$
$
$
$
Minnesota Department of Transportation
District 3
7694 Industrial Boulevard
(218) 828-5700
District Engineer: Robert Busch
Project Manager: Jim Hallgren
Original date of Posting: Jan 2009
Revised Date: 1/15/2011
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