POPLARVILLE —
Consulting engineer Les Dungan of Dungan Engineering of Picayune told supervisors this week that the debris cleanup project will probably stretch to the end of October before it’s completed.
He estimated that the cleanup project resulting from Hurricane Isaac, which hit the county the last week in August, is about 50 percent complete.
He also said that an important bridge replacement project will be bid out on Oct. 31, and will be 100 percent paid for with federal bridge replacement funds. The bridge scheduled for replacement is on Savannah-Millard Road.
He said that he will report to the board of supervisors on Monday, Nov. 5, the board’s regular monthly meeting, on a recommendation on a bid for the bridge work.
Dungan said that a similar project, under the same type funding, is scheduled for Barth Road.
He said a previously completed similar project was the Burnt Bridge project, which cost several million dollars, and saw the replacement of four bridges in a short stretch of road spanning the Hobolochitto Creek and adjacent swamps near the New Palestine Baptist Church near the southwestern corner of Picayune.
“The Savannah-Millard Road project is good news,” Dungan told supervisors. “These are discretionary federal funds.”
Dungan also told supervisors that as of this week, the Isaac cleanup project had generated 9,249 cubic yards of debris so far: 5,891 cubic yards of vegetative debris and 3,357 cubic yards of construction and demolition debris.
He said original estimates of how much debris would be picked up were high, and said that it is now estimated that when the project is completed an estimated little more than 20,000 cubic yards of debris will have been removed. “But you must keep in mind these are estimates,” said Dungan.
He said 22 units of what are called “white goods,” mainly kitchen appliances ruined by flooding, had been picked up so far.
The debris is all being deposited in the Millard central landfill. No burning is allowed.
The bid for the project was let on Sept. 12 to Hensley R. Lee of Picayune.
Dungan said Lee will make two passes on each public road before completing the project. He said those who have piles of debris that think they were missed, should call the county for pickup. The debris must be what is called “eligible.”
Dungan is monitor for the debris removal project.
Dungan said 62 sites were identified as having damage to roads in the county. He said eight of those sites were sites that were “primed and ready to pave.” He said repairs of those sites was “progressing nicely.” The county is hoping to get reimbursed for damage to county roads from FEMA.
The board also adopted an order, on Dungan’s recommendation, accepting as complete a bridge on Jacobs Road on which worked was recently completed. The order would accept the bridge as completed and release the contractor from any further responsibility on the project, said Dungan.
Dungan said a plan was being worked out that would address all the other damaged roads in the county. He said that planners want to group the roads in a project so they could be worked on more efficiently.
Dungan also told supervisors that the Mississippi Department of Transportation had agreed to install a traffic light at the intersection of Mississippi Highway 43 North where it intersects with Beech Street and Liberty Road. He said the installation of the light there was approved because of the volume of traffic and a study showed the intersection is very dangerous.
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