Town of Milford Trail Project

The Town of Milford with funding from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and oversight by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) intends to proceed with a multi-use trail project in the Town of Milford. The proposed trail will start at East 1^st Street and end at Waubee Lake Park, located along the west side of East Camp Mack Road.

The need for this project stems from the lack of pedestrian and non-vehicular facilities connecting the Town of Milford to Waubee Lake Park. There are no existing pedestrian facilities within the project limits, but there are existing pedestrian facilities within the Town of Milford outside of the project limits. The primary purpose of this project is to provide pedestrian and non-vehicular facilities to connect the Town of Milford to Waubee Lake Park.

The preferred alternative consists of the creation of an ADA-compliant, 10-foot asphalt multi-use trail and associated trailhead facilities to connect the Town of Milford with Waubee Lake Park. The trailhead and facilities, including a sidewalk, parking, a resting area with a bench, and trash receptacles, will begin at the south side of East 1st Street east of the Norfolk Southern Railroad.

The multi-use trail will begin approximately 180 feet south of East 1st Street and extend along the east side of the Norfolk Southern Railroad, utilizing a pedestrian bridge to cross Turkey Creek, continue to and extend along the north side of UNT to Turkey Creek to E CR 1150 N, where the trail will cross E CR 1150 N utilizing pavement markings and signage. The trail will continue east along the south side of E CR 1150 N to the intersection of E CR 1150 N and E Camp Mack Road. The trail will then extend south along the west side of E Camp Mack Road until it ends at Lake Waubee Park. Along the south side of E CR 1150 N and the west side of E Camp Mack Road, the multi-use trail will cross eight private driveways. Where the multi-use trail construction will impact the private driveways, new driveway aprons will be reconstructed as part of the project. Driveway culverts/small pipes may be installed under the seven driveways along the south side of E CR 1150 N that do not have existing driveway culverts and will be crossed by the trail in order to maintain drainage along the roadside and off the trail.

Approximately 500 feet from the start of the multi-use trail, a pedestrian bridge is to be constructed to convey trail users over Turkey Creek. The pedestrian bridge will be a 56.5-foot long, single span prefabricated steel truss bridge. The pedestrian bridge is designed for 90 pounds per square foot (psf) and HS-10 loading, which equates to 16,000 pounds or 8 tons. The designed bridge provides for a trail width of 8 feet and 1.5 foot shoulders for a total truss width of 11 feet. Riprap for bank stabilization will be placed along the banks of Turkey Creek under the pedestrian bridge. Work to two existing small pipes within the project limits is also proposed. The first small pipe, Pipe #1, is a 24.5-foot long, 10” corrugated metal pipe (CMP) located under a private driveway along the west side of E Camp Mack Road. As the driveway apron is reconstructed for the trail construction, Pipe #1 will be replaced with a 25-foot long, 12” CMP. The second small pipe, Pipe #2, is a 37.7-foot long 12” CMP that directs drainage from the east side of E Camp Mack Road under the road to Hoopengarner Drain. Pipe #2 will be extended 16 feet with matching 12” diameter Type 1 pipe to convey the drainage from east of E Camp Mack Road to Hoopengarner Drain under the multi-use trail. An additional 12” pipe, referred to in the plans as Structure No. 10, will be placed under the multi-use trail north of Hoopengarner Drain to direct roadside drainage from the west side of E Camp Mack Road under the trail and into Hoopengarner Drain.

The trail construction work will require likely require short-term flagging operations to maintain traffic along E CR 1150 N and E Camp Mack Road when construction reaches where the multi-use trail will cross E CR 1150 N for pavement marking. Flagging operations may also be used periodically through construction of the multi-use trail where it is constructed along E CR 1150 N and E Camp Mack Road, but both E CR 1150 N and E Camp Mack Road will remain open to traffic throughout construction.

The estimated cost of this project is $1,763,000.