Lauderdale County plans full rebuild of Rogersville Heights road after heavy hauling and buried infrastructure found

Lauderdale County officials said they will move forward with a full rebuild of a road in the Rogersville Heights subdivision after heavy hauling from a nearby pit left the surface damaged and crews uncovered buried infrastructure during excavation.

"They're hungry," one board member said as the meeting opened; later, Speaker 3 told commissioners, "we finally kinda got synopsis of what we think it's gonna take to repair this thing... that was an insurance claim... the 2 bids we got are 90,000 and about 105,000." He said the county has already received an insurance check and intends to advertise the repair work and place a formal bid item on the next agenda.

Speaker 3 said Mammoth, the operator of a pit behind the subdivision, "hopped 220 loads in 2 days," contributing to severe degradation of the road surface. While crews were preparing to install a new drainage pipe, they struck and exposed an older pipe that had been buried and filled with dirt; crews have installed a replacement pipe and staged equipment on site.

"So by the end of the week, we should have a good deal," Speaker 3 said, describing the schedule for initial repairs and cleanup. Speaker 4 and other commissioners praised the crews for their work; Speaker 4 described observing a polymer repair process and called the crews' coordination "incredible."

Next steps: county staff will advertise the repair project for bids, and the item will be presented to the board at a subsequent meeting for formal consideration. No formal motion or vote on the contract was recorded in this meeting.

Funding and procurement details beyond the two bid amounts were not specified in the transcript.