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Road work: fresh oil listed on US-12 from Aug. 21, 2026

The South Dakota Department of Transportation lists Road work: fresh oil at US-12 from 9.25 miles east of Junction US 281-Aberdeen to 2.50 miles west of Junction South Dakota 37-Groton, with a listed start of Aug. 21, 2026.

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What
Public safety
When
Record date Aug. 21, 2026; Added Sept. 6, 2026
Source
Road work and restrictions
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About 1 minute

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US-12 near Aberdeen is scheduled for fresh oil in both directions.

The state transportation department describes the work this way:

The following road construction project is in progress: fresh oil adjacent to the roadway with delays 10 minutes, lanes reduced to 1, no passing, speed limit 45 mph, traffic routed to opposing lanes, and truck speed limit 45 mph Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Friday between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM until 6:00 PM CDT Friday, September 25, 2026. For information or questions about a construction project, please find contact information for our SDDOT Area Offices at:

The listed work zone runs from 9.25 miles east of the US 281 junction at Aberdeen to 2.50 miles west of the South Dakota 37 junction at Groton, near milepost 222. The work is listed from 11:53 a.m. MDT (12:53 p.m. CDT) Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, until 5 p.m. MDT (6 p.m. CDT) Friday, Sept. 25. The listing does not say which time zone applies, so both are given.

The project has its own page: dot.sd.gov/inside-sddot/region-area-offices/region-area-offices.

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.

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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 It is worked out from the listed dates each time the page loads rather than stored as an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing.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.

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Around this record

The records published so far include 4 road records from the South Dakota Department of Transportation within about 16 miles of this location with a listed start on or before this date. 3 of them state an end date on or after it. SDDOT published no end date for the other one, 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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