Sections of the main road between Ogilville in southwest Bartholomew County and Freetown in northwest Jackson County will be closed late this week.
On Thursday, road crews will begin applying a chipseal treatment to State Road 58 in northern Jackson County, just east of State Road 135, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation.
Over the next three days, the seal coating work will proceed 27 miles north through Spraytown and into southwest Bartholomew County.
Work on State Road 58 will continue north into Waymansville and the Mount Healthy area before crews make their way through Ogilville. The project will end west of Interstate 65 in the vicinity of the Woodside South Industrial Park.
Motorists should anticipate the closure of sections of State Road 58 to through traffic between Spraytown and Ogilville.
However, INDOT pilot vehicles will be on the scene to escort school buses and local traffic through the work zone.
Every dollar spent on chip-seal can save from $6 to $14 in highway expenditures down the road, INDOT said.
