Comments on: After ‘Permanent’ Repair, Highway 97 Shoulder Collapses Again Into 50-Foot Deep Gully

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:29:05 +0000

Chris and Safebear have the best suggestions in my opinion.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:19:32 +0000

They need to use sprayfoam trench breakers over and around the pipe like they do up in the mountains.

By: A.

A. — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:31:39 +0000

Next time try Gorilla Glue instead of Duct Tape.

By: trish

trish — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:51:55 +0000

Theres one on Hwy 4 near Dortch Rd that is doing the same thing….

By: Safebear

Safebear — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:24:27 +0000

Looks like someone needs to suck it up and put in some sheet piling. Long, thick sections of sheet metal that is pounded into the ground deep enough to form a solid wall to act as a wall to hold the road bed.

The contractor had to agree to the work that was done and either they don’t have a good engineer to figure it out or the State really forced them into taking it. Either way, the contractor will be assigned the blame and probably file an insurance claim to redo it.

By: CW

CW — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:08:31 +0000

Why is that big gulley there? Was it originally a creek or something? It does seem odd to have land on one side and a gulley on the other.

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:48:32 +0000

This is not the fault of the contractor.
The State of Florida highway department has many “road engineers” in Chipley.
Their job is to figure out how to do it correctly.
They also write the specs for the work to be done.
And they or someone with the state is suppose to inspect things along the way to insure the work is done to the specs.
Someone with the state “inspected” and signed off on the work done.
Before the contractor got paid.
100% blame is on the state of Florida.

By: William

William — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:30:28 +0000

>>Why are there rocks so close to the drainage pipe?

The rocks were placed there *after* the collapse, I suppose as temporary measure. The entire pipe and area with the rocks was under dirt.

By: Confused

Confused — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:18:46 +0000

Why are there rocks so close to the drainage pipe? You can’t compact soil around the pipe with the rocks there. I guess I am looking at something wrong.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:08:39 +0000

There is a drainage pipe that runs under the road way right there from the ditch on the other side of the road . they need to dig out the road and put a big concrete box under the road to drain the water to the other side its all most like a bridge but its not . they need to get some one that is not from this area to design it cause the one we have here don’t know how