| County Officials Trying to Prioritize Road Repairs After Flooding |
| 5/19/2009 |
| County officials are trying to set priorities for repairing flooded roads, bridges and culverts. They have a lot to look at. In Mercer County, officials have counted 77 repair sites. McLean County lists 200 while Oliver County has 400 sites. Some need a load of gravel. Others need much more work. Last week, a crew was building a culvert detour near the Coyote Creek bridge southwest of Beulah so farmers and others in the area can get across the creek while the bridge is being fixed. Farmer Jim Schaefer says it`s a real mess. He lost calves to flooding and his pastures are filled with debris. Forty-one counties and three North Dakota reservations are getting documentation together for survey teams of state and Federal Emergency Management Agency. The teams will decide whether the repairs qualify for reimbursement. Bruce Nelson, the Oliver County road superintendent, says he looks at it as an ambulance crew would approach a train wreck. He says it`s like triage in which crews are working with "the most critically injured first." |
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