More than $620K Cedar Sauk Road project could begin in 2026

A $620,000-plus repaving project on a section of Cedar Sauk Road from Northwood Drive to Highway I is inching closer to a potential groundbreaking in 2026, Saukville Town Engineer Matt Stephan said.

The project is partially funded by a Wisconsin Department of Transportation grant administered by Ozaukee County, with the towns of Saukville and Cedarburg splitting the 30%, or about $185,000, share of the project cost.

Although the grant request was approved in April of this year, Stephan said, the Saukville Town Board waited to act on the project for budgetary reasons.

Additionally, he said, “It would have been an extremely tight schedule to do design and planning this year.”

The grant money will be available until 2029, he said.

Planning could start as early as next year, Stephan said, with construction in 2026.

Stephan said he knows the Saukville Town Board is motivated to start the project because, according to a memorandum of understanding signed with the Town of Cedarburg several years ago, it is obligated to fix the road no matter what.

Repaving involves pulverizing the existing road’s pavement and adding new material around it before surfacing it with asphalt, Stephan said, which is a more involved project than simply resurfacing the top layer of the road.

Stephan said he believes the project was chosen for the grant because it involves a collaboration between two municipalities and because Cedar Sauk Road is considered a “Milwaukee metro connector road.”

Cedar Sauk Road, which is shared between the towns of Saukville, Cedarburg and Grafton and the Village of Saukville, has undergone multiple recent improvements.

Earlier this month, the Town of Saukville received an over $630,000 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law grant for a nearly $800,000 reconstruction project of a Cedar Sauk Road bridge between Highway I and Maple Road.

In 2020, the portion of Cedar Sauk Road from Highway O west to Maple Road was resurfaced for about $292,000 in a collaboration between the towns of Grafton and Saukville and the Village of Saukville.