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Five Pike County roads remain closed

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Thursday, December 3. 2009
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Areas of Pike County received extensive rainfall Tuesday night and most of Wednesday. Some residents report receiving as much as 5.25 inches of rain in a 16-hour period.


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#1 #1 on 12/03/09 at 03:22 PM
4.6 inches one place on Old Zebulon Road.
#2 stump on 12/03/09 at 03:47 PM
Eppinger Bridge is not on Dripping Rock Road. Eppinger Bridge is on Eppinger Bridge Road, and Dripping Rock Road is open as of yesterday.
#3 dirt road dweller on 12/04/09 at 10:21 AM
If they did a better job maintaining the ditches the roads would stay in better shape!
#4 Anonymous on 12/04/09 at 04:32 PM
I totally agree
#5 Splost supporter - last time on 12/05/09 at 09:24 AM
This road is typical of many dirt roads in the county. 4.6 inches of rain is not the entire story. When ditches get clogged, water has no where to go but out of the ditch and on to the road bed that then gets washed out. Last SPLOST, Jake Garner threw in money at the last moment to purchase a couple of back-hoes to "pull ditches". If the county can't keep the grass on the right-of-ways cut, I guess "pulling ditches" is out of the question.
#6 windpower on 12/05/09 at 12:22 PM
i remember about 5 to 6 years ago maybe longer they subbed out the ditches to a outside company and all they did was take a road scraper and drop the blade down in the ditch and cleaned out the ditch it pushed the dirt back on the road then smoothed it out over the road ,dont we own some road scrapers ?cant our road dept do that? now there full again and my culvert is full now the water goes around the end of my drive and washes it away some body needs to be cracking the whip on these people ...
#7 Marro Speed on 12/06/09 at 07:41 AM
Moving Pike County Forward.
Make it happen.
#8 Anonymous on 12/07/09 at 02:00 PM
If you would have voted for a splost you may have got some roads paved, instead you continue to buy gravel and fuel.
#9 Concord Resident on 12/07/09 at 07:17 PM
Eppinger Bridge never flooded. Not to mention, Eppinger Bridge is NOT on the Upson County line.
#10 Paved Roads on 12/09/09 at 11:58 AM
The roads in New Hampshire and Flager Beach Florida are all paved.
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