Major road stabilization work wraps up in Marianna
MARIANNA – A $1 million road stabilization project was wrapping up Friday alongside Marianna dam, which contributed to the erosion problem and is now slated to be removed.
Allison Park Contractors Inc. of Gibsonia not only filled a giant void under Main Street, but also made repairs to a ramp leading to Ten Mile Creek and graded and replanted the streambank, Marianna officials said.
“We’re ecstatic,” Marianna Council President Wes Silva said. “They did a fantastic job.”
Over the years, flooding along the creek beside the low-head dam washed out the road base, leaving a void large enough to fit several minivans and causing the street to subside.
The state Department of Transportation approved emergency funds to hire Allison Park after slide repairs performed there a year ago didn’t succeed.
The borough was told that Allison Park would leave the area better than it found it when work began in late August.
“We’re very pleased with how it turned out,” PennDOT spokeswoman Valerie Petersen said.
She said the road, which had been reduced to one lane during the project, was expected to fully reopen Friday. It will be repaved next year, she said.
“Over the next few weeks, daylight work will continue on things such as completing drainage. This should be completed by early January,” Petersen said.