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Show Antelope Causeway Closes Once Again The seven-mile causeway which spans Great Salt Lake from Syracuse in Davis County to the Great Salt Lake State Park on the north tip of Antelope Island will be closed for approximately 30 days commencing Monday, February 9, according to Utah's State Park Director Harold J. Tippetts. BYRON Dalrymple, project engineer for the Utah Department of Transportation, Transporta-tion, said that a contract has been awarded to Pritchett Construction Company of Provo to raise the existing bridge structure approximately approxi-mately five feet to correspond with the level of the newly reconstructed roadway. The causeway was reopened last October after the completion of a major reconstruction recon-struction which took nearly two years and three million cubic yards of material to accomplish. ac-complish. DALRYMPLE stated that the contract calls for 30 working days to complete and the causeway will be available availa-ble in ample time to accommodate ac-commodate early spring visitors visi-tors to the island. |