UNION, W.Va. – Most computer services at the Monroe County Courthouse are back up and functioning after an accidental concrete spill Tuesday that covered some servers in the record room.
Monroe County Clerk Jeremy Meadows said the tax office is now back up as well as his office. The assessor’s office is still down but should be up and running by Thursday evening. One of the servers was destroyed in the concrete spill.
Meadows said it was a construction accident as the courthouse is undergoing major renovations and concrete was being poured into blocks above the record room and one of those blocks had a hole in the bottom that happened to be above the servers.
The record room will be back open on Tuesday, March 4, but by appointment only.
“Everything has been cleaned up now and we are 90 percent operational,” he said. “We hate it happened but accidents do happen. We are rolling with the punches and getting everything up and going as quickly as we can for our citizens.”
The courthouse is being renovated after severe water damage was discovered in 2017 and court proceedings have been held in Summers County.
But the more than $5 million project, which was funded by the state and started in October 2023, was also interrupted by a construction-related fire in January, with some county officials temporarily relocating.
However, Meadows said that despite the setbacks they are still hopeful the project can soon be completed.
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