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Riverfront businesses may reopen next week
Three businesses located on the Vidalia riverfront -- closed for a month due to Mississippi River flooding -- may reopen by late next week, Mayor Hyram Copeland said Tuesday.
"Hopefully, by Thursday or Friday we'll have the water off the road," at the riverfront, said Copeland. "We're getting the sewage and electricity hooked up today (Tuesday). By the end of the week we'll have all that in place."
The next process, he said, will be "evaluating and then start taking the Hesco boxes down," Copeland noted. The Hesco bastion temporary levee system will "take longer to take down than it did to put up. We're probably going to have to bid out this work through FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to make sure that we do everything according to FEMA's rules and regulations so that we'll hopefully be reimbursed.
"Naturally, that takes time. You've got to advertise and go through the bidding process."
He said a few of the Hesco boxes will initially be removed so employees and clients of the businesses can enter the buildings.
Meanwhile, work to remove 360 Hesco baskets on the levee along Hwy. 15 south of Vidalia is underway. Chancellor & Sons of Cordova, Tenn., is the contractor and will also be doing repair work from Bunge to riverfront area
The baskets along the levee are being bundled for immediate shipment north to the Missouri River, where flooding is occurring at this time. The sand used in the baskets is being placed in an adjacent barrow pit for reuse.
The section of Hwy. 15 closed due to the levee work will reopened this week as soon as cleanup is complete, according to the contractor.For the full story, subscribe to the The Concordia Sentinel's NEW E-Edition! |
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