Weekend rains hit Wayne County roads just as they finish February flood repairs
By John McGary
March 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM EDT
The top elected official in a southern Kentucky county said heavy rains this weekend erased much of their recovery from the mid-February flood. Wayne County Judge-executive Scott Gehring said Friday, they turned in flood reimbursement requests to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The next day, heavy rain began.
“We had just got all of our roads passable, all the culverts put back, rebuilt. Still had a lot of work to do, but at least we had them passable, and the rain hit and just erased every single thing we had done.”
Gehring said five roads were washed out. Monday, he said three of them were passable again.
“Yeah, initially from the high water, then the water is receding on those except for one, the water's up, and then the other one, the road is completely washed out.”
Gehring said there are steep hills on each side of Old Mill Springs Road – and nowhere for the water to go.
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“We had just got all of our roads passable, all the culverts put back, rebuilt. Still had a lot of work to do, but at least we had them passable, and the rain hit and just erased every single thing we had done.”
Gehring said five roads were washed out. Monday, he said three of them were passable again.
“Yeah, initially from the high water, then the water is receding on those except for one, the water's up, and then the other one, the road is completely washed out.”
Gehring said there are steep hills on each side of Old Mill Springs Road – and nowhere for the water to go.
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