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Fiscal Court approves $140,554 bank-stabilization project on Hidden Valley Road, KYTC to reimburse $100,000
Summary
County engineers will install a segmented concrete bank stabilization to protect a county road where a stream had encroached on the driving surface. Project cost is $140,553.82; KYTC will reimburse $100,000 and the county share is about $40,554.
Oldham County Fiscal Court voted 8–1 to approve a bank-stabilization project on Hidden Valley Road after county engineers said the road’s streambank had advanced near the roadway and recent flooding underscored the risk.
County Engineer Jim Sullivan presented photos showing a stream meander and groundwater seepage near the pavement on a one-mile county-maintained segment north of Covington Ridge Road. Sullivan said the selected contractor, Guardian Retention Systems, can construct about 20 feet of 8–10 foot tall concrete segmental bank stabilization. The total estimate is $140,553.82; the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Department of Rural and Municipal Aid agreed to reimburse $100,000 after completion, leaving an estimated county share near $40,554.
The road committee recommended the work and Magistrate Zach Wilt moved approval; the motion passed, with Magistrate Mark Likens casting the lone no vote. Sullivan said the bank includes subdrainage to capture groundwater that emerges from the hillside and to reduce future erosion. He said the county used the state’s existing contract with the vendor so the project could move quickly without separate competitive bidding.
Why it matters: Hidden Valley Road is a county-maintained road accepted into the county road system in 1995; engineers said the bank erosion threatened the roadway and standard rock fill could be washed out by repeated flooding. The project is intended as a long-term stabilization to avoid recurring repairs.
Quote: “The intent will be to excavate some on the backside and build a wall so this no longer gets eroded by that stream,” Sullivan said.
Ending: With state reimbursement covering the majority of costs, the county will schedule construction and execute the agreement with the contractor; Sullivan told the court he expected the state reimbursement after project completion.
