December 2015 Issue 8 Volume 12
Inside this issue:
• Lover’s Leap Mountain • PRSA Summit Award • Big Game Tournament Group of employees from Check AHQ participate in a hype video during their dry run. (cont. pg 4)
The Extra Mile It’s Been a Great Year
Lover’s Leap Mountain The flooding that happened during September caused damage across the Salem District and Virginia. One area that was hit especially hard was Route 58 going up to Lover’s Leap Mountain.
By Ken King, P.E. Ken.King@VDOT.virginia.gov
It has been almost a year since I stepped into the district engineer role. As I think back over the On September 29, these flood rains previous year, I have caused slope failures, deep cracks had the opportunity Cracked pavement and shoulder damage in the pavement and shoulders to to see the Salem District team during September flooding. disappear. This created a significant from a fresh perspective. I have public safety issue and required the mountain to be reduced to one a new and strengthened apprelane traffic. The Fairystone AHQ had to flag traffic, along with a pilot ciation for what it takes to keep vehicle, throughout the night. our organization moving and achieving. When a hurricane was predicted to hit the area three days later, the decision was made to shut down the mountain completely until the My time as district engineer storm had passed. This created an 80-mile detour which inconvebegan with a bang as the snownienced the public and affected commerce until one lane of traffic storms of February kept us cont. pg 2
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