Residents of Big Twin Creek Road hope to be next in line to have freshly paved access to their homes.
Ronald Chappell, a resident of Big Twin Creek Road, went before the fiscal court last week as a representative of the community.
“It needs to be resealed,” Chappell said of the road, adding that a school bus route runs through the road and a church is located on the road, and that the poor conditions hamper access for both.
Big Twin Creek Road is currently paved, but hasn’t been resurfaced in some time and the conditions have worsened over the years, causing the extremely narrow road to be bumpy and uneven, Chappell told members of the court.
With a spattering of holes on the road and a couple of bridges along the way, the poor conditions make the road hard to travel, he added.
“It’s a top priority to do that this summer,” said Owen County Road Supervisor Dan Logan.
Logan said it hadn’t been decided yet how much of the road would be repaired or whether the repair would be made with cold mix or hot mix, but that the project would be completed by early June.
It’s expected to take about six working days to complete the road, Logan said.
“We’ll get started just as soon as we can,” Judge-Executive Billy O’Banion said.
When asked by Chappell why it has taken so long to get to Big Twin Creek Road, O’Banion explained the road resurfacing process to Chappell and the other residents in attendance at the April 11 meeting.
He said when the fiscal court decided to begin work on improving and repairing roads, each of the four district magistrates were asked to submit four roads from their areas that most needed blacktop, listing the roads in order of priority.
Then the roads were repaired based on what priority the magistrates attached to the roads.
Of the 16 roads selected, eight have already been completed.
After the completion of those eight roads, the fiscal court had to wait to receive more money to complete the remainder of the roads on the priority.
Magistrate Gary Minch, who represents the District 1, which includes Big Twin Creek Road, explained that he listed Long Ridge Road as his top priority because he felt that road was most in need of being repaired, and that Big Twin Creek Road was one of the other three roads he selected.
“The problem right now is we’re a year behind,” Minch said of the repair process.

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