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Escambia County Makes Drainage Improvements On West Kingsfield Road
August 8, 2018
Escambia County Road Department crews recently installed a new drainage structure on West Kingsfield Road to divert stormwater drainage off approximately three-fourths of a mile of the thoroughfare between Cantonment and Beulah.
The project, located about a mile west of Highway 97, stops pooling and flooding around a dangerous blind curve. Removing the stormwater in that location helps correct one of many traffic hazards on the aging road, according to Escambia County.
Engineering and design for the project were done internally by county Public Works Department engineers Jim Hagon and James Duncan. The work was accomplished entirely by county personnel based at the road camp in Cantonment, using county equipment. And it works perfectly as demonstrated by recent heavy rains.
The new drainage structure is 30 feet wide and approximately 700 feet long, channeling stormwater into a receiving wetland that ultimately drains into the Perdido River through Rock Creek, which flows under Beulah Road north of the Perdido Landfill.
Property for the project was donated to the county by Frank and Elizabeth Westmark and Devine Farms, LLC.
Pictured top: Escambia County Public Works Roads Division: Henry Langford, equipment operator; Nathan Cobb, road Corrections Officer; Johnny Lyons, equipment operator; Matt Avery, field supervisor; Ralph Wilson, road construction specialist; Barron Ikner, equipment operator; Matt Giffin, road construction specialist; and Justin Knight, equipment operator. (Not pictured: Ronnie Lambert, field supervisor, paving crew.) Pictured below: The drainage system in operation. Photos for NorthEscambia.com
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10 Responses to “Escambia County Makes Drainage Improvements On West Kingsfield Road”
I will say there’s a lot of country workers that won’t get down on the mud an water thay get the inmates to get down in the mud an cold water but I can tell y’all the ones in this picture will get down in the mud an with with the inmates an even teaching the inmates how to do things that most wouldn’t teach them I have a lot of respect for the ones pictured here an will help them anytime i happen to see them in need an capt Cobb that man will do way more than his job he will get wet cold muddy an even not take a break to eat to make sure the job is done
“The work was accomplished entirely by county personnel based at the road camp in Cantonment…” No the hell it wasn’t. It was done my inmates at Camp 5.
They need to widen and put speed bumps down west kingsfield. Road is no where near the state minimal width and navy Federal has told their employees to use the road to keep traffic down on 9 mile. They act like it’s a racetrack passing people and going at least 50 mph!!
Wish they could do something at 9 1/2 Mile and Edendale Road area. Drainage ditch on south side of 9 1/2 Mile road between Stefani and Sunday is not large enough to handle all the water in that area. Water, sometimes knee high, then flows down (north) across yards and into houses, instead of draining to culvert at corner of 9 1/2 Mile and Stefani. This has been going on for years and no one at Roads Department seems to know what to do. Ditch that runs east and west needs to be deeper, culverts at driveways in that area need to be larger, and it wouldn’t hurt to keep the ditch clean!
Old Henry was probably looking for coon tracks around that water, and it looks like Krystal might want to start cutting back the feed just a little bit to that ole boy
David Knight also aided the project.
Do it brother in-law….Henry Langford.
drainage dept always works hard.its a hot job and a cold job at times.tommy vance is looking down on them and what a good job they do.
Ole Henry making things happen, good job.
I see Pole Cat