Official Website for Madison County, Iowa
Contact Information
Madison County Engineer
1105 East Court Ave
Winterset, Iowa 50273
Hours
Monday - Friday
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Phone
(515) 462-1136
Fax
(515)462-2506
Engineering Technician
Duties of the County Engineer
The Engineer’s Office is responsible for the planning, design and supervision of all construction and maintenance work on the secondary road system. The County’s road system includes 910 miles of roads. Of that total 104 miles are paved. There are 245 bridges on the county road system.
The secondary road department is responsible for the general maintenance of all the county roads, bridges and culverts. This includes rock surfacing of the unpaved roads, patching paved roads, pothole repairs, shoulder rocking, mowing shoulders and brush cutting, county bridge and culvert repairs, ditch cleaning in order to allow proper drainage, snow removal on county roads, roadway sign installation and maintenance.
The department is also responsible for accounting functions, operating budget, construction program development, project design, construction, inspection and contract administration of bridge replacement and road projects.
The department operates on an approximate annual budget of $11,251,861. The proposed budget revenues and expenditures are listed below:
FY25 Revenues
FY25 Expenditures