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The West Virginia Department of Highways, (DOH) came back to address the drain under US Route 50. Again, the old man again took the DOH down to the valley floor and pointed to the location of the drain outlet on the valley floor. This time, the DOH immediately found the drain outlet on the valley floor, where it came out from under the McDonald's slope. The DOH started preparing the area for the equipment that would be needed in their attempt at a horizontal cleaning of the drainage line under US 50. The old man told the state workers to stay in the middle of the valley floor and away form the earthen slope that the Quick Lube sat on. He repeated this to anyone that would listen. He then went in the house. The state workers dug a wide and deep trench downstream and to the extreme left of the drainage outlet opening. In the process they took out the complete bottom or toe of the earthen slope that the Quick Lube business sat on. The old man came out of the house; He could not see the sense of it. Why would they go over to slope in the first place? It made no sense. The DOH worked for a few days cleaning the drain out and in the process found the collapsed point a considerable distance back into the McDonald's slope and located far into state right of way. The state left. The old man went down to the West Virginia Department of Highways State Road Office. He told them that they needed to fix the bottom of the slope, behind the Quik lube, that they cut out. The DOH came back with the City. The DOH placed a heavy rock support blanket that locked into the valley, at the base of the slope. Note: The people of Bridgeport and Clarksburg would be so proud of Frank Lacaria. Whereas the condition the DOH left the area in would have resulted in a lateral support collapse of U.S Route 50. This would not have been good.
As, during the same time periods:
U.S Route 50 East, (just outside of
Bridgeport) had collapsed. As did Route
131, (a half mile from the U.S 50 & U.S
Route 131 Intersection).
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