Hart County Working to Repair Roads Washed Out by Last Week’s Storm

Hart County is slowing working getting their roads back in shape after last Thursday’s torrential rain.

County Administrator Terrell Partain tells WLHR News in all eight roads were washed out.

One of those was a paved road.

That paved road, he says, was Deer Run Road, which collapsed when rushing water crushed one of the culverts under it.

“We had nine pipes gone. One road had two pipes on it. So eight roads in all. We had one road going into a subdivision that had 10-11 houses cut off so we fixed that temporarily last week in the rain so we could have access to them. Deer Run had two pipes exposed. One pipe washed completely out and the other exposed. We fixed the exposed pipe the day it was raining so hard. So we have access to those houses. That’s always our priority to fix those roads first. So I think we have everybody able to get in and out,” Partain said.

Partain said all of the dirt roads have been made passable until the real repair work can be done.

He said they have to wait for better weather before that work can begin.