County engineer briefs commissioners on multi-year slope stabilization project and near-complete repairs

Mar 28, 2025

Jackson County engineering staff presented detailed findings and photos of a multi-year slope failure and the county-led stabilization work, including soil nails, shotcrete walls, micropiles and drainage, after a failure first noted in 2019.

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County engineers presented a technical briefing on a major slope repair project that stemmed from a large roadway failure first observed in 2019. The presentation detailed subsurface investigations, boring locations, geophysical (mass wave) studies, and design decisions that led to soil-nail walls, shotcrete facing, wick drains and micropile caps to stabilize upper and lower road sections.

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