CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Work to repair Keystone Drive in Charleston will begin at the end of this month, according to Yeager Airport Director Terry Sayre.
Drilling is set to begin May 31. Work to remove material is scheduled to start on or before June 20.
“There’s about 215,000 cubic yards of material left to be removed on and around Keystone Drive to try to get that back open for the residents over on Barlow Drive,” Sayre said after a Friday meeting with Yeager’s Construction Committee.
A contractor is ready to go with the removal of the material which buried the road following a hillside collapse at the airport’s overrun area on Mar. 12, 2015.
Sayre said crews will be removing material for most of the summer.
“If we start June the 20th, that should take about 10 to 12 weeks,” he said.
The road should be open by late summer, Sayre said, during what has been a slow process to get things back to normal.
“There’s a lot of issues involved,” he said of an ongoing legal battle with its insurance company and other parties involved. “We just all have to get everybody to agree to do certain things. It takes time.”