
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 30, 1993                   TAG: 9306300249
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: PEARISBURG                                LENGTH: Short

GILES HIGHWAY CONTRACTS ANNOUNCED

Contracts for three Giles County highway projects were among almost $7.3 million in road improvement contracts awarded recently by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in the Virginia Department of Transportation's Salem transportation district:

A rock slide near Virginia 641 off U.S. 460 near Narrows will be repaired by Fort Chiswell Construction Corp. of Max Meadows under a $154,235 contract.

A retaining wall on U.S. 460 West, about one-tenth of a mile west of Virginia 643, will be repaired under a nearly $37,925 to C.R. Meader General Contractor of Pulaski.

In Pearisburg, Curve Road will be widened and paved with asphalt from Mountain Lake Avenue to Craig Avenue under a $503,623 contract to Fort Chiswell Construction Corp.

Work on the projects is expected to begin during July.

For more information, call Laura Bullock at the Virginia Department of Transportation, 387-5493.

by CNB