Easy winter helps county crews with flood repairs

Published 9:19 am Tuesday, January 24, 2012

 

 

Repair work on the infrastructure damage done during the spring and early summer flooding remains on schedule.

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“We have been fortunate not to have that much snow so far that reduces our production,” County Engineer Doug Cade said.

Last week crews finished up permanent repairs on the landslide on County Road 52 at the 1.7-mile marker.

“Normally, it takes a week, but this last one took two weeks,” Cade said. “It was a deeper slide and we have to drive in longer pilings than estimated.”

Crews started work this week on the landslide on County Road 58 at Mile Point 200 at the beginning of that road.

“They will be putting up fence today,” Cade said on Monday.

Most of the work will be done in-house following reviews by representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency of more than 400 sites in the county. Those were consolidated into 187 projects eligible for FEMA, Federal Highway Administration or Natural Resources Conservation funds.

Also finished up last week were replacing five of the bridges on county roads washed out by the massive rains.

Cade expects the work to continue through the winter and all of this year with county crews handling about 86 percent of the projects.

However larger projects will be contracted out; they include landslides on County Road 6, 7a, 4 and 15.

Also on the repair list is cleaning out debris from underneath bridges to prevent further decay. Crews from the Workforce Development Resource Center are doing that work.