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Road work: gravel surface, paving listed on SD-46 from Jan. 9, 2026

The South Dakota Department of Transportation lists Road work: gravel surface, paving at SD-46 from 1.50 miles east of Junction Interstate 29-Beresford to 2 miles west of Iowa State Line, with a listed start of Jan. 9, 2026.

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What
Public safety
When
Record date Jan. 9, 2026; Added Sept. 23, 2026
Source
Road work and restrictions
Read time
About 2 minutes

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SD-46 near Beresford is scheduled for gravel surface and paving in both directions.

The state transportation department describes the work this way:

The following road construction project is in progress: ROAD CLOSED, gravel surface, and paving with local traffic until further notice. The grading of SD Highway 46 from Beresford to the Iowa line is complete. The final surfacing project for this stretch has started. For this project, the roadway will be closed to thru traffic and thru traffic will be detoured on I29 and Lincoln County Roads 152 and 143. The width restriction on the detour route will be 12' wide. The overwidth detour route is on I29 and SD Highway 48.

The listed work zone runs from a mile and a half east of the Interstate 29 junction at Beresford to 2 miles west of Iowa State Line, near milepost 96. The work is listed from 9:15 a.m. MST (10:15 a.m. CST) Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, with no end date, which is how work scheduled until further notice is listed. The listing does not say which time zone applies, so both are given.

The project has its own page: dot.sd.gov/construction-projects/mitchell-region/yankton-area/sd-highway-46-from-beresford-to-iowa-state-line/.

Plans change with weather and crews' progress; the South Dakota Department of Transportation has the latest at SD511.

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How the times are shown

The department publishes start and end as numeric timestamps, so each is shown as a clock reading in both of South Dakota's zones.

How the status is decided

Whether work is currently underway is not written into the article text, deliberately: it depends on when you are reading. It is worked out from the listed dates each time the page loads rather than stored as an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing. The status at the top of the page is that calculation, not a claim the department made.

The department's description is put into plain words by fixed rules only: its standard opening line is replaced, times and dates are written the way people say them, and direction words lose their capitals mid-sentence. Nothing is added, and every number, place and time it gives is kept; a description in a shape those rules were not written for is quoted exactly as published. A detail inside it can be superseded without the surrounding fields changing.

Around this record

The records published so far include 1 road record from the South Dakota Department of Transportation within about 16 miles of this location with a listed start on or before this date. SDDOT published no end date for that record, which is how the department represents work scheduled until further notice — whether those are current cannot be worked out from the records, and no guess is made. SD511 is the department's own live conditions service.

This section is assembled from other records already published and from arithmetic on the date above and on the coordinate this record's source published. It is not part of the filed record.

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