Lead-Deadwood High School road to see major overhaul

LEAD The Lead-Deadwood School Board approved $73,500 in project engineering costs that will start in motion the process of redoing CC Curran Drive, the street that runs behind Lead-Deadwood High School, and its adjoining retaining wall.

We want it to last 50 more years and its not been touched up a whole lot in the last 70 years, said Lead-Deadwood School District superintendent Dr. Dan Leikvold.

Lead-Deadwood School District building and maintenance supervisor Wayne Karpinen said that the approximate $450,000-project will stretch over the next two years and involves replacing the roughly 500-foot road, as well as the retaining wall that borders it.

That short wall is in tough shape, Karpinen said. What were basically going to end up doing is widening that area and moving the wall back into the hillside.

Underneath the road is an area that formerly housed a coal storage bin, when coal was used to heat the building.

Now we use it for a fuel storage tank, Karpinen said. Its a backup. We have interruptible service for natural gas. When it gets really cold we switch to fuel oil. The problem is, the current tank is 20 years old and doesnt meet all the latest and greatest specs, so were going to remove that tank and put the newest version in.

There are three entrances located behind the building, entrances that students use and parents drop off to: a triple door entrance to gym one, a double-door entrance to the wood shop and a double-door entrance to the old home economis/now art room.

Were going to look into a way to try and tie our steam boiler system into that area underneath the road surface to develop a snow melt system back there, Karpinen explained.

A short wall is also planned in the vicinity of the stairs that come down to CC Curran Drive from the bus garage to keep rock that sloughs off the hillside off the road.

There are also plans to make the handicap ramp to gym one more handicap accessible by adding handicap parking nearer to the ramp.

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Lead-Deadwood High School road to see major overhaul