Highway Projects | Danville Vermont

Project	Goal	Cost	Information / Materials
Highway infrastructure requires constant maintenance, which the Highway Department manages well with its annual budgets. However, there is always a list of significant ($100,000+) projects, often highlighted or exacerbated by emergency situations such as the heavy rains and flooding of 2023, 2024, and 2025, for the Town to address when funds are available. The Selectboard maintains a Highway Infrastructure special purpose fund to save for these projects, ideally to build them before circumstances force the issue.
Annual Paving	2026	$100,000 Town: $100,000	Every year the town repaves some sections of road to maintain them. The 2026 paving will be for sections of Brainerd St and Hill St.
McDowell Road Culvert	2027	~$310,000 Town: $110,000	McDowell Road acts as a dam for Badger Brook when the culvert cannot handle the flow, flooding the property to the west and threatening damage to the road and property downstream in rain events like St Johnsbury in 2024 and Sutton in 2025. A state structures grant in 2026 should enable the town to replace the culvert with a concrete one that should last indefinitely.
Bruce Badger Landslide	2028?	~$600,000	Morrill Brook is eating away at its banks, encroaching on sections of Bruce Badger Memorial Highway along the road from Danville to North Danville. While not yet an emergency, it will undermine the highway in the long term. Absent state/federal mitigation funding, the town will have to conduct repairs itself. AOT BBMH Slide Memo 20250728
Roy Road Bridge	N/A	$400,000	Roy Road acts as a dam for Roy Brook when water levels rise to the level of the bridge, flooding the property to the southeast and threatening damage to property and infrastructure downstream in St Johnsbury. A future state structures grant may enable the town to replace the bridge with one that should last indefinitely.
Upper Drive Extension	N/A	$500,000	The town owns a right-of-way, not currently taken as a highway, that connects Upper Drive to Route 2. Danville expects to take a class 4 road initially and may eventually upgrade it to class 3 as part of a northern detour around the Town Green bottleneck.
Cross Country Road Upgrade	N/A	$400,000	Cross Country Road connects Walden Hill Rd to Crystal Ave and Hill St, but as a class 4 road much of it is not passable. Danville expects it may eventually upgrade it to class 3 as part of a northern detour around the Town Green bottleneck.
Joes Brook Road Surface	N/A	$800,000	Joes Brook Road is class 2 and connects Danville with Barnet and Route 5. The southernmost section has 0.87 miles that is unpaved (with another 1.65 unpaved miles in Barnet). Danville expects to pave this section if/when Barnet paves their section.