CHARLESTON -- Mississippi County officials have an estimate on the cost to repave asphalt roads broken and graveled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Now they need to make sure all of the roads listed on the claim were really blacktop before the Corps' work to rebuild the frontline levee.
County Clerk Junior DeLay said during the regular County Commission meeting Thursday that the estimate from Apex Paving for putting a four-inch thick asphalt cap on County Roads 301, 302, 304, 305 and 307 was around $2.5 million.
But Carlin Bennett, presiding county commissioner, said that "to be fair about it" county officials need to determine whether County Road 305 was an asphalt road before the levee was breached by the Corps to activate the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in May 2011 or was at that time already a gravel road.
"I don't believe 305 was paved," Bennett said. "I know the others were paved."
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