The West Greene School District continues to pick up the pieces after a retaining wall, built adjacently behind the new elementary school along a large hillside, collapsed during a night in early November.

The partnership of the project architect, The Hayes Design Group, and the construction manager, URS Corp., started building the wall two springs ago as a part of the new elementary school project.

The retaining wall, which cost upwards of a million dollars, was built to hold the soil on the steep hillside and prevent consistent eroding. The only thing separating that and the new school was an area for faculty to park.

Its somewhat of an inconvenience because Im asking nobody to park behind their for safety issues, said Thelma Szarell, school district superintendent. We were expecting it to be paved by this time, but it would be terribly inconvenient if we had students and staff in the building.

However, many concerns dealing with the construction and design of the retaining wall were addressed in many school board meetings prior to the collapse occurring. Many cracks and separations were visibly noticeable in the wall for several weeks leading up to the incident, including at a meeting the night prior to the collapse.

The school board remained persistent on fixing issues brought up at previous meetings, some of which being the installation of drains beneath the wall and gray clay soil behind the wall.

However, despite the efforts made by the school district, the wall that stretches over 700 feet and over 30 feet high, crumbled in the center, ultimately sending several large blocks to the ground. Thankfully, some of the wall remained intact after the collapse.

The district hired independent engineers to assess the issue and what went wrong to cause the collapse. It has yet to be determined what resulted in the destruction; however, once that issue is resolved the district plans on developing a plan to correct the problem.

After finalizing a proposal to continue with the project on in August 2011, the new elementary school will combine both Graysville Elementary and Springhill-Freeport Elementary to a unified location, next to the senior high school and middle school.

It will benefit the school district tremendously, Szarell said. In the long run it will be more cost efficient. We will be able to have new programming done in the elementary and it keeps the kids from being isolated.

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Route 611 at the foot of College Hill should open next week, according to Easton's public works director.

The road has been closed intermittently since retaining wall on the hillside above gave way in May. The failure of the rain-soaked wall along Mattes Lane allowed rocks to tumble to the road below.

Repairs have been extremely difficult due to the steep terrain above. The project initially scheduled for a few weeks dragged on for months as contractors struggled to buttress the wall without allowing heavy equipment to tumble downhill.

The city closed the road for fear rocks and debris could fall on cars below during the project, according to city public works Director Dave Hopkins.

A retaining wall is now in place, although further reinforcement is planned for the base of the wall, according to a worker on the job site.

"Based on the progress of work to date, we believe that the roadway will be opened to traffic by next week," Hopkins said Tuesday in an email.

The closure has been inconvenient not just to travelers but to homes along the detour route.

"May we please have an update on this story?" commented one reader on Nov. 29 to a story on the construction posted Oct. 22 predicting the road would open in two to four weeks.

Rudy Miller may be reached at rmiller@express-times.com. Follow him on Twitter @RudyMillerLV. Find Easton area news on Facebook.

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An elderly woman escaped serious injury after inadvertently driving her car over a Masterton carpark retaining wall and in to a Chapel St gutter a metre below yesterday.

Firefighters, ambulance officers and police were scrambled to the crash scene near the corner of Chapel and Russell streets shortly after noon and the flow of traffic was briefly slowed as the woman was removed from her vehicle and the site cleared yesterday.

Masterton traffic policing Sergeant Chris Megaw said the woman had mistakenly driven her Mazda Demio vehicle over the top of a metre-high retaining wall and through a hedge in the Warehouse carpark from a space bordering the Chapel St parking area.

"She's come off the carpark and onto the footpath, spun around, and the car's ended up across the gutter."

Mr Megaw said the woman had not received any serious injuries in the crash and was taken to hospital by ambulance for further assessment.

There were no other vehicles involved in the incident, he said.

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