King recognized by Iowa County Engineer’s Association

(Clarinda) — Website page County Engineer J.D. King lately acquired sizeable recognition from an corporation representing county engineers in the course of the condition.

King was a recipient of the 2022 Remarkable County Engineering Accomplishment Award at the Iowa County Engineer’s Association Convention previously this month, the place he was also presented with the 25-Year Company Award. King attained the 25-12 months milestone very last yr but was not in attendance. King tells KMA News he was honored to acquire the recognition.

“I was humbled with the receipt of that outstanding accomplishment award and I did not foresee it, you know I am just doing work away like regular on the maintenance and design listed here in Webpage County,” claimed King. “It was a shock but I take pleasure in the engineers and the group that believed I was deserving of that distinction.”

King has been the county engineer in Webpage County considering that 2013 and worked in Ringgold County from 1995 to 1998, Des Moines County from 1998 to 2003, and Fayette County from 2003 to 2013. In his time in the business, King claims a person of his passions has been performing on the larger county bridges, which normally only come around each individual 40 to 100 a long time. He feels they have experienced good results in that regard in the course of his time in Website page County.

“We’ve changed two bridges on the Nodaway (River) on the east aspect of the county and right here in the west portion of the county with the East Nishnabotna River, we created a bridge north of Shenandoah, and suitable now we are setting up a bridge just outdoors of Essex on 150th Street, and we’re organizing for a different bridge there,” he mentioned. “So, you will find a lot of do the job to do below and I’m experiencing it.”

King also oversaw replacing a single of the longest bridges in Fayette County in 2008 right after significant flooding throughout jap Iowa, which also served as a essential paved connection to north of West Union. Also, in Site County, King claims he has also been delighted to oversee the completion of a number of seal coat roads converted to asphalt, which wrapped up in 2018. King also established in movement one particular of the a lot more considerable repaving initiatives in the county in modern memory with an 11-mile stretch of O Avenue, or the “Stanton Road,” this past summertime.

Even so, King has also taken satisfaction in guaranteeing continual upkeep is performed on the county’s secondary street network.

“The non-flashy things — the routine things that we do just about every calendar year and pavement upkeep,” King defined. “Points like crack filling, joint sealing, transfer slurry leveling, and fog seals. We have labored on that in the course of the community in this article to maintain what we have and maintain that as lengthy as we can.”

Immediately after around 25 several years in the sector, King suggests he has occur to recognize the method of looking at via projects and servicing that drastically affect the touring general public within the county.

“Viewing a need or having a eyesight for a job, conversing to the Board of Supervisors about it, establish it, prepare it, build it, push across it, and the people that you know, use the things that you’ve got built,” claimed King. “You’re close to the traveling public, you reside there, you travel the streets, and you do matters that you can see — they are concrete, no pun meant.”

The ICEA “Remarkable County Engineering in Accomplishment Award” is made to realize fantastic contributions to the engineering career in the area of county engineering.