RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. – A Raleigh County road that partially collapsed during recent flooding has seen further slippage and will now require a piling wall to repair.
WV Department of Transportation District 10 Engineer Ryland Musick said a section of Prosperity Road at mile marker 4.4 experienced a slip during flooding and a further section of the road collapsed last weekend.
The slip is now about 100 feet long and one lane of the two-lane road is gone.
Musick said the repair job will now be more extensive and require a piling wall as a permanent repair. Piling walls are built by driving steel beams vertically deep into the ground to support concrete slabs. The hillside will be backfilled behind the concrete slabs and the road rebuilt. A utility pole will have to moved to install the piling wall.
Engineers are currently working on the project design, and construction is expected to start later this spring.
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