MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A state Division of Highways official says additional work is planned for secondary roads and other projects in Monongalia County.
DOH District 4 Supervisor Darby Clayton delivered an update to members of the Monongalia County Commission Wednesday.
Clayton said patching is ongoing on Stewartstown Road and the Halleck Bridge project will soon be bid as a design-build project. Clayton also told commissioners Monongalia County has benefited from a pilot program launched by the Justice administration.
“Some of the work we’ve doing we’ve actually had the ability to put out the work through purchase orders,” Clayton said. “Some the ditching that’s been done in Mon County has been done by contractors, to help our state forces out, and some of the patching, so, we’re trying that as a pilot program and Mon County was the first one in the state to do that.”
Commission President Tom Bloom expressed concerns to Clayton about the DOH’s interactive map focused on road work projects. Bloom said it creates confusion and he would like to be able to overlay the map onto the GIS system to keep track of maintenance progress.
“We’re a maintenance organization, we’re never going to be complete,” Darby said. “We ditch a road, it might need maintenance after the next rain event. We might ditch and call it complete and you guys look at it two weeks later and we’ve had a rain, it might need to be ditched again.”
Darby added that despite a very wet June the weather has been very good for his crews and he hopes good weather for work will hold through most of December.