MARSHALL — After about a year in effect, Lyon County sales and wheelage taxes have collected more than $2 million for area road projects. While not all of that money has been spent yet, it has helped the county pay for some maintenance work, and will make more road repairs possible this summer, said Lyon County Highway Engineer Aaron VanMoer.

On Tuesday, VanMoer presented the Lyon County Board with the county highway department’s annual report for 2016. Along with summaries of the department’s activities and spending, he gave county commissioners an update of how the sales and wheelage taxes were being used. The local taxes were approved in 2015, for the purpose of bringing in additional revenue for county road maintenance. Both taxes were in effect for part of 2015 and all of 2016.

In that time, the county wheelage tax brought in about $242,000, VanMoer said. In 2016, a total of about $26,000 of that money was used for a shoulder paving project on Lyon County Road 6, and traffic striping on Lyon County Road 33.

The county’s local option sales tax raised about $1.94 million in 2015 and 2016.

“We haven’t spent any of that money yet,” VanMoer said. However, the sales tax revenue will help the county pay for additional resurfacing projects on several county roads. VanMoer said resurfacing projects are planned this summer for Lyon County Road 24, County Road 9, County Road 10, County Road 8, County Road 6, and County Road 11. Resurfacing work should begin in the next couple of weeks.

In his report, VanMoer also gave commissioners a summary of the highway department’s expenditures in 2016. The county completed road and bridge construction projects with a total cost of $3.7 million, and had a total of $2.9 million in maintenance costs.

About 297 miles of County State Aid highways received maintenance in 2016, the report said. The county also did maintenance work on about 148 miles of county road and 21 miles of municipal street. The maintenance work included blading gravel roads, cleaning culverts, removing snow and ice, and other tasks.

• Tuesday’s report on the highway department also included a summary of construction projects planned for this year. The county will be resurfacing more than 40 miles of highway this year. VanMoer said they will also be replacing a total of seven bridges.

Three of the bridges to be replaced will be inside Camden State Park. The remaining four replacements will be for township bridges. Two bridge replacements will be done in Grandview Township, and one in Rock Lake Township, VanMoer said.

VanMoer said there is also one emergency bridge replacement that will be done this summer. A culvert in Lynd Township recently washed out and will need to be replaced. The state will be assisting Lyon County with funding the emergency culvert replacement, he said.