Enormous hole in county road finally filled

Thursday, August 28, 2014

scottw@standard-democrat.com

CHARLESTON -- Mississippi County officials have finally found the bottom in the hole where County Road 310 used to be before being washed away during the 2011 activation of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

"We are above the water line on 310," Presiding Commissioner Carlin Bennett said during the the regular County Commission meeting Thursday.

Since the project was approved by Federal Emergency Management Agency, the county has been hauling and dumping fill material in a hole "as big as this courthouse," Bennett said. "It was a big hole. We never did see the bottom of it because it has always been full of water."

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