CLAY BANKS, Wis. (WFRV) – Torrential rainfall overwhelmed a culvert, splitting a road into two in rural southern Door County on Tuesday morning.
There’s about a 30-foot piece of the road missing at the intersection of County Highway U, Shiloh Road, and Rosewood Road. Local officials tell Local 5 News this is in the town of Clay Banks.
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County officials have set up barriers and cones to block off the roads.
“It’s not a place for you to come visit; it’s a dangerous place because these banks are falling apart; most of this is sand, so it’s not stable,” said Rob Robison, the Door County Highway Department construction superintendent. “We don’t want people to go near the edges because they’re collapsing as we speak.”
County officials said they got about 5 inches of rain in just a couple of hours early Tuesday morning. This overwhelmed the culvert, breaking it and washing out the road.
County officials said one of the biggest challenges in repairing the road is finding a culvert as large as the previous one. They don’t have a timeline for when they will finish the repairs.
County officials said they’re seeking state disaster grants to help them pay for repairs.
For now, they’re stressing that the road isn’t safe and that it continues to crumble along the edges of the hole that has formed.
County officials said they are considering applying for state disaster funding grants to help them pay for the road repairs.
“I was talking with a 20-year veteran of the highway department, and he was surprised, too. This isn’t something that normally happens here in Door County, but here we go,” said Door County Director of Emergency Management Jeb Saelens. “It’s rare for Door County to have something like this; this is completely outside the box.”
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Saelens told Local 5 News that the storm damaged other roads in the county, but the damage at the intersection of County Highway U, Rosewood Road, and Shiloh Road was by far the worst.
“Just was the combination of all that water needing to go somewhere,” he said about what caused the culvert to fail and the road to split.
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