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Largest stream erosion project in ACRD history underway Huge wall, backfill, aimed at stopping undercutting of Melson Ridge Road With photos By Ed Waggener Adair County Judge Ann Melton has announced that the Adair County Road Department (ACRD) began construction of a 300 ft. long, 12 ft. high, retaining wall on the south bank of Crocus Creek at Inroad on Monday, June 16, 2008. "We're happy to get the project underway," she said. "It is very important to the safety of travelers along the road. We're aiming toward a completion date before school starts," she said. The project is intended to shore up the Melson Ridge Road from Inroad to Cundiff, Melson Ridge, in Magistrate Sammy Baker's Third District of Adair County. The work is an "in-house" project. Forms, with heavy use of rebar re-inforcement, where started by the ACRD on Monday. When the retaining wall is complete, a back fill will slope to the shoulder of Melson Ridge Road. It is the largest stream erosion project in all of Adair County Road Department history, and the largest in recent history since the Mill Creek/Yuma Road Project in Roley in Distrct 6 in the last year of the Jerry Vaughan administration, in August 2006, and is considered the Adair County Road Department equivalent, in scope, to the Army Corps of Engineers Old River Works on the Atchaflaya. The work was necessary to keep the Melson Ridge Road from falling into Crocus Creek, which had undercut the shoulder of the Melson Ridge Road, leaving beautiful, but perilous overhangs which treatened to drop off, taking part of the road, with possible threat to human life. Adair County Roads Superintendent Jobe Darnell said the the work is expected to take 45 days, if the weather is favorable for construction. Working on the job, besides Darnell, are Lonnie Page, Gary Samuell, Tom Brock, Donnie Melson, and Terry Williams and workers from the Class D Adair County Regional Jail facility. The project is being built with a $92,000 emergency grant from Gov. Ernie Fletcher. Adair County Administrative Assistant Lisa Lee advises motorists to use extra caution when driving near the project. "Trucks and equipment will be leaving Melson Ridge Road to go to the construction site. It is a difficult entrance, and an even more difficult exit." Melson Ridge Road gets more traffic each year, as more and more residences are built to take advantage of the roads incredibly beautiful scenery. Melson Ridge Road is part of a favorite Adair County loop, down Scenic 704, over Dug Hill, across Melson Ridge Road to KY 900, to Glens Fork, and north again on KY 55 to Columbia. This story was posted on 2008-06-17 07:47:45
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