Shop LocalTuesday, January 3, 2012
Between detours while the Highway 94 bridge was closed and increased traffic due to the large number of temporary employees working the Callaway Nuclear Plant’s outage, several county roads took a beating this summer and fall.
Wendy Barnhart, who lives on County Road 447, said that roadway in particular has suffered a lot of damage.
“It’s like potholes beyond belief,” Barnhart said.
In a letter to the editor, she said that one quarter-mile stretch of the road is “wash boarded out” and that subsequent freezing and thawing “has made for a mud pit and a washed out pothole of a mess. Nowhere on the road is there not a pothole.” Barnhart wrote that she was not impressed with the way the county maintains its roads, noting that county grading crews often leaves large rocks in the middle of the road and at one point the road was graded in the rain, leaving it in even worse condition.
Susan Johns, who also lives on County Road 447, agreed that it is in pretty rough condition, saying that “it certainly could use some grading.”
“There’s just certain times of year it gets really bad,” Johns said. “We’ve definitely had years where it gets this bad.”
Comments
elmer_fudd 1 year, 4 months ago
Its no surprise that the county does this on other roads. County Road 132 is only graded when it rains or right after it rains. Needless to say there is never gravel on that road. If a dump truck does come and spread gravel it is normally a matter of days before the grader operator pushes all of it off the road. I have complained numerous times to the director of the road and bridge dept but he never does anything. I think the news crew should come out and look at CR 132. They will see that the R&B dept spends countless money on gravel only to see it get shoved off the road and into piles. Again just more money being wasted. I for one think that the county should start paying for repairs to peoples cars if they are going to allow the roads to get in the shape that some of them are in.
The true reason they wont blade down very far to bring up the gravel is because they have an agreement with the phone companies to be able to bury their lines under the road. I watched one being put in one day and it was only put about 2 foot under ground. If only the citizens knew what was actually happening they would really be upset about it.
elmer_fudd 1 year, 4 months ago
Also just wanted to say that CR 132 has been riddled with pot holes for months. It is not taken care of and it is a highly traveled road as it is already. Maybe its time for the County to get a NEW road and bridge supervisor or at the least NEW grader operators.
tallpine 1 year, 4 months ago
Take a look at 133, it is the most direct route to & from the nuke plant and is open when route o is closed due to water. The only difference is the rock plant takes great care of the road along with the county. The point is the best route to & from someplace as importian as the nuke plant should be paved, not the road that is closed everytime the river gets out of banks. I guess it will take something like Japan to get people to wake up.
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