Mat-Su finishes upgrading two Butte roads off Bodenburg Loop to residential standards

The Mat-Su Borough said Tuesday it has finished upgrading Knik View Drive and Knik View Circle in Butte, bringing both roads off S. Bodenburg Loop up to local residential standards. The borough posted before-and-after photos of the completed work.

The project covered design, utility relocations, construction and paving. The roads sit in Road Service Area 26, the Greater Butte service area. The road service area system lets the borough levy taxes in local areas to hire road contractors to build, maintain and service roads there. Property taxes are levied by the assembly for each service area, and the assembly approves all mill levy rates.

The borough assembly awarded the construction contract to Northern Asphalt Construction on May 5 for about $292,000. The company was the lowest of four bidders; the others bid between about $355,000 and $538,000. The borough memo calls it a road service area project recommended and funded by the Greater Butte service area as part of its road improvement project list. The contract set a final completion date of Nov. 13.

ENSTAR Natural Gas found unavoidable conflicts with its gas lines and estimated about $88,000 to move them. It later found an internal engineering estimating error, and on Aug. 18 the assembly approved about $31,500 more, raising ENSTAR's estimated relocation total to $119,891.15.

Residents can check service area boundaries on the borough's road service area map.