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Beverly Atkins, who lives on Route 629, said that one bridge and three sets of culverts were washed away in the flood. She said that when she got home around 9 p.m. on Monday night, the river was normal, and that the rain all came down after midnight. She went down to check the Jordan River at 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning and was shocked by wbat she saw. She stayed home that<4ay. but walked out, going through the mountains, on Wednesday afternoon. She said the further up the hollow the worse it got.
According to Mr. Marshall at VDOT, Routes 630 and 631 were both closed for a few days, but both are passable now. Yesterday it was reported that Route 630 was open, but there was still some water on the road.
A section of the bridge on the Washington end of the Fodderstack Road had to be replaced and there was a four to five foot deep drop in the roadbed for a section of it.
On Route 729 near Route 618 near Laurel Mills, the flood waters from Battle Run lifted the bridge above the level of the road and set it back down, but the bridge will have to be replaced, according to Mr. Marshall. He said, “That’s one of our mains secondaries. Everybody can get in and out; they just have to go around.”
A bridge leading out to Tiger Valley on Route 626 was impassable but has now been repaired. Mr. Marshall said that once the water is back at its normal level all over the county, all of the bridges will be officially inspected. Last week they made judgment calls based on visual inspections of the bridges on whether to allow traffic to use the bridges once they were clear of water and debris, he said.
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