Lake County is at risk of losing federal funding for bridge maintenance due to failure to inspect three bridges this year. The kicker here is that the bridges they allegedly failed to inspect no longer exist. One was removed completely and the other two were recently removed and rebuilt.

After spending over one million dollars on the two new bridges and having the new structures inspected, the county is still, apparently, on the hook for the inspections of the old bridges, as they were before being rebuilt.

Hopefully, for residents of the county, this is an oversight which is easily corrected, as losing federal maintenance funding would mean the cities which comprise the county would have to foot the bill for bridge upkeep. This, ultimately, woult most likely lead to tax increases for residents of those cities.

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