Final disaster recovery project on pace to meet deadline

scottw@standard-democrat.com

CHARLESTON -- Flood damage to a Mississippi County road which left an enormous hole where the road base used to be has almost been repaired.

Carlin Bennett, presiding county commissioner, reported on an update from Richard Wallace, county road and bridge superintendent, on County Road 310 during the County Commission's regular weekly meeting Thursday.

The county road was damaged by the water released into the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the spring 2011 flood.

County crews have been dumping fill materials in the hole since the road's restoration was approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster recovery reimbursement shortly after the damage occurred.

"They are about two dumps of rock from being done with the rock potion of that," Bennett said. "They then have to go in with dirt, fill the rest of the hole with dirt."

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