Road collapse repaired
A state highway crew works on Sunday (May 31) to repair a washout that occurred Saturday on Highway 116 west of Briceville in Anderson County. The road was reopened to traffic about midday on Monday, the state Transportation Department said. - TDOT
Part of the roadway of heavily-traveled State Route 116 (New River Highway) slid down the bank of the Ligias Fork River on Saturday morning, forcing the Tennessee Department of Transportation to close the road and bring in a repair crew. The road was reopened just after noon on Monday after the slide area was filled and the roadway repaved, TDOT reported. The slide occurred in the area of Grave Hill Missionary Baptist Church, southwest of Briceville in far western Anderson County. “Good news! SR 116 is back open near Petros in Anderson County,” TDOT spokesman Mark Nagi said in a news release shortly before 3 p.m. Monday. “Part of the roadway washed away due to heavy rains on Saturday morning. “Crews replaced broken pipe, filled that area with rock yesterday [Sunday], and paved today,” he said. State Route 116 carries traffic from Rocky Top through Briceville, and then into the New River area, connecting to Petros and Brushy Mountain State Prison. The part of the route west of Briceville was restricted by TDOT to keep out large trucks beginning in 2023 after residents of the area complained to the state about frequent accidents caused by the trucks operating on the winding mountain road.
Read MoreRocky Top eyes cleanup before parking project
This is the former Martin Funeral Home property in downtown Rocky Top that will be cleared to create the city’s first public downtown parking lot. - G. Chambers Williams III
Rocky Top has taken one step closer to having its first public parking lot in the downtown area. More than two years since the parking lot was proposed for the former Martin Funeral Home site at 225. S. Main St., the City Council during its May 21 meeting voted to hire the Knoxville engineering firm Ardurra Co. to check the property for underground tanks and possible leaked motor vehicle fuels in the soil. City Manager Mike Ellis said there appears to have been a gasoline station on the site in the 1950s, and the city must remove any tanks and fuel that may have leaked into the ground. That work is required by the U.S. Environment Protection Agency, and the city has obtained a so-called “Brownfield Grant” through the EPA to help pay to find the tanks and identify any leakage.
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Development board pitches $25K vision project
The Norris Community Development Board, which is an arm of city government under control of the City Council, wants the council to allocate up to $25,000 to pay a consulting firm to produce a “Community Vision” document to help guide the city’s development over the next 20 years. Members of the board — who are all appointed by the City Council — presented the board’s preliminary ideas for the document at last month’s City Council meeting. The council took no action on it, even though the city is in the process of finalizing its budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The board met some skepticism from the council over the idea, which some members suggested might turn out to be more of an action plan than just a vision statement. Last Thursday night (May 28), the Community Development Board met and discussed at length how it might present the idea to the council again, being careful, as several members suggested, that the word “plan” not be used when seeking the $25,000 for the consultant.
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