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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock Newi Staff Writer
In the past three months he’s faced torrential flooding and winter’s first storm, but the Virginia
Department of Transportation’s ne\y maintenance superintendent remains enthusiastic about his position.
Ron Marshall replaced Doug Bywjaters as the county’s VDOT supervisor after Mr. Bywaters was promoted to the Warrenton resjr dency. And he has no regrets about leaving his post as Warrenton’s Superintendent of Public Works, a post ? he held for four yesirs.
“In 15 years, I have never worked with the kind of people I have here,” Mr. Marshall said. “They are competent, and they do an outstanding job.” He pointed to the ‘round-the-clock effort the crews put oUt following the flooding in October aS an example of their work. “I immediately called Penny (Maintenence Supervisor Ennis Jenkins) and asked him to call a couple of other guys. Penny tried to get in to the highway shed and couldn’t, so he called a dump truck to come and get him and came in the other way.
“They didn’t wait for me,” Mr. Marshall said with obvious satisfaction. “They went right out and started to work.” That kind of dedication allowed the crews to have nearly all the county’s secondary roads passable to school buses by the _ Monday morning following Saturday’s flooding.
“All we had to do was let them know what we wanted done, and they did it. That really makes a difference.”
The 13 VDOT employees who work out of the highway office outside Washington are responsible for maintaining 64 miles of primary highway, as well as 214 miles of secondary roads in the countyr Mr. Marshall, as the transportation
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