White Oak hits paving snag

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

White Oak’s 2021 paving project is underway, but during Monday’s council workshop meeting the borough engineer and a councilman brought up issues that have been experienced while roads in one neighborhood were being milled.

Engineer Ken Hillman said that on Friday, “the concrete pipe that crosses Main Street, part of it collapsed in once the milling came down and they started binding roads.” 

Although it’s called Main Street, the road is not a main thoroughfare in White Oak and is located in a residential neighborhood. Hillman said roads are not very wide in that part of the borough.

“That pipe basically has no cover over top of it,” he said.  “It sits pretty much there at grade. It had about 6 inches of material over top of it.”

The engineer said there’s about 40 feet of 48-inch concrete pipe that needs to be removed and replaced. 

“When you look down the existing pipe of what you can see, it was kind of Band-Aided together,” he said. “There’s a lot of brickwork to make pieces work. There’s, I believe, like a stop sign piece of metal bent over the top to fill in a hole previously. There’s some work there.”

“It’s very compromised” Borough Manager John Palyo said.

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