MUB headed again to Baird Avenue following August storm

MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Utility Board is heading again to Baird Avenue. 

Throughout Thursday’s common assembly of the utility’s board of administrators, Common Supervisor Mike McNulty stated a number of the work made obligatory by historic rain occasions in the summertime of 2021 was undone by a reasonably important storm final month. 

“On Aug. 25, we obtained about 1.5 inches of rain in half-hour. It was fairly a storm,” he stated, explaining water ended up getting beneath the asphalt MUB laid final 12 months, creating voids and no less than one sinkhole close to the newly constructed retaining wall. 

Assistant Common Supervisor and Chief Engineer Wealthy Rogers stated a part of the 2022 mission was to put in an inlet construction that separated stormwater flows from the sanitary sewer system. 

The storm surge that occurred final month lifted a concrete lid weighing 1000’s of kilos off the inlet. As a result of the manhole atop the construction is bolted down, the strain couldn’t be relieved and the water was pressured out laterally, beneath the asphalt. 

McNulty stated there was no harm to any properties within the space.  

He additionally stated the asphalt challenge is just not the results of any issues with the newly put in infrastructure, which was undamaged following the storm.

“It was simply an excessive amount of rain too quick,” he stated. 

The price of the mission is just not but recognized. 

In different MUB information, Rogers stated the utility plans to work with the West Virginia Division of Highways to restore Higher Cobun Creek Highway following years on building on the Flegal Dam and Reservoir web site. 

He stated the work will run from the reservoir as much as Kingwood Pike. 

“There are some areas with culverts that have to be changed and a pair areas of full-depth work that should occur, after which a resurfacing of that street,” he stated. “We’re ready on an settlement from the DOH … however we verbally agreed on the market to collectively assault that mission and get that performed.”