A project to improve the safety of a Berrien County bridge is being finished nearly two months ahead of schedule.
The Michigan Department of Transportation announced it will be wrapping up its $800,000 investment to repair the M-140 bridge over the Paw Paw Lake Outlet near Watervliet in Berrien County.
The bridge will be reopened to traffic this afternoon. It originally was scheduled for completion by Oct. 30.
The project included rebuilding the bridge deck and repairing the abutments and piers. MDOT says there still is some work to complete off the roadway, such as turf establishment and silt fence removal, but nothing that will require lane or bridge closures.
