All concerned parties are happy with drainage plan

scottw@standard-democrat.com

CHARLESTON -- With the Missouri Department of Transportation on board now, drainage problems on State Highway 62 west of Charleston, just south of the T-Intersection with Highway 77, should be a thing of the past.

"It has been taken care of," Mississippi County Commissioner Darrell Jones said during the Commission's regular weekly meeting Thursday, "and the state is involved."

David Wyman, area engineer for MoDOT, viewed the area at the end of last week, according to Jones, and agreed to a plan to keep residential properties located on the south side Highway 61 west of Charleston near the T-intersection from flooding.

A resident there was concerned that a grading project on the farm field located immediately south of his property which resulted in the field's northern edge being higher than his property's southern edge would dam water coming from the north.

Jones said the field's owner has agreed to build a ditch along the south side of the residential properties. That new ditch will carry the water west to drain into MoDOT's ditch along the east side of Highway 62, which runs south from the T-intersection.

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