TIM PRATT
The Starkville Board of Aldermen Tuesday approved emergency repairs for a section of Old West Point Road which collapsed Monday.
Aldermen approved up to $70,000 for the engineering, design and construction work needed to repair the section of road that collapsed about 1/4 mile south of Highway 82. The funds will be taken from a future city Capital Improvement Project budget.
Columbus-based Ellis Construction will perform the repair work. It is unclear how long motorists must wait until the section of road, closed since shortly after noon Monday, will reopen.
It was a motorist Monday who noticed a roughly 4-by-4 foot section of Old West Point Road had collapsed under the weight of his vehicle after he crossed a bridge over an unnamed tributary of Sand Creek.
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