Highway section over dam to close

Maintenance by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a section of Arkansas 178 on Bull Shoals Dam in Marion County will require lane closings beginning Monday and lasting through next fall, the Arkansas Department of Transportation said.

Both lanes of Arkansas 178 across Bull Shoals Dam will be closed from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, weather permitting, to allow equipment needed to refurbish the dam gates to be staged. During this period, one lane will remain closed from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m., the department said.

Beginning Wednesday, the section of Arkansas 178 will be reduced to a single lane of traffic until next fall.

Additional road closures of up to two days will be set every four to eight weeks to allow the movement of equipment as work progresses, the department said. Traffic will be controlled with flaggers, signs and traffic cones.