The contractor working on the Milwaukee Street bridge replacement in downtown Janesville could face more than $100,000 in state penalties if it takes until October to finish the bridge as the company expects.
According to the department of Transportation starting August 15th, Waukesha-based Zenith Tech will be charged a daily penalty of $2,070 for “every calendar day” the $5.7 million project remains uncompleted.
Zenith Tech originally projected the bridge replacement would be finished by June 21st, but earlier this year, the company said work had fallen behind a few months—mainly because high, fast water on the Rock River was hampering work on new footings for the bridge.
Zenith Tech then agreed to a new, contracted completion date of August 14th. But an updated project schedule provided to the DOT last month indicated the contractor likely would not finish until October 24th—more than a year after work began.
