TxDOT to host public meeting for planned Wirtz road bridge

As the state prepares to host a public meeting on a planned new bridge, local officials offered de tails about the timeline.

The Wirtz Dam Road bridge is scheduled to be built over the Colorado River to connect Cottonwood Shores to an area between Marble Falls and Granite Shoals.

“The plan has been for this to go out for construction bid summer of next year,” Burnet County Judge James Oakley told The Highlander. “Everything has been planned around the lowering of Lake Marble Falls around the fall of 2025.”