Town of Mount Holly
Another day of flood recovery road repairs for the Town Road Crew, local contractors, and Town of Poultney DPW. The town excavator and local contractors worked on major repairs/wash outs that included but not limited to Healdville Rd, Hedgehog Hill Road N, and Belmont Rd at Gates Intersection. The town grader worked on spreading road aggregate in numerous locations, filling rills left behind by the storm. The Town of Poultney DPW used their excavator and 3 dump trucks to complete repairs on Beaver Meadow Road and then moved over to Barlow Road. They hope to finish Barlow Rd repair tomorrow before they have to head back home and tend to their own roadways. Super thankful for their mutual aid. The town loader and 16 trucks helped move and manage over 1000 tons of road building aggregate we brought in today, with the crews above using that up a fast as it comes in. The crews above will continue to work their way around town tomorrow performing repairs. Our major repairs that are left are at Freeman Brook/Lushes Acres (photo below of damage, Markowski Excavating mobilized today) and a steep slope repair on Healdville Rd.
VTrans will be traveling around town tomorrow (Thursday) doing their own damage assessment of the town (taking photos and measurements of damage), this is a critical step towards FEMA disaster declaration for the region/state.
As mentioned before our first priority is to make the roads passable and safe. In the coming weeks the Town Road Crew and contractors will be doing final restoration (final grading, asphalt repairs, ditching and shoulder grading, etc.). In the meantime please proceed with caution and expect some bumps.
The town is looking into additional hours at the transfer station for those that need to dispose of storm debris. We will have a better idea tomorrow if this is something that can be done and will post to newsflash and fb.
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