Jordan Street High Priority project was initiated due to a citizen’s complaint on March 7, 2011. The Jordan Street slide presented an immediate danger to two occupied dwellings along Moore Street, loss of access to residents on Jordan Street, and damage to public utilities. A small purchase contract was bid to remove trees and an unoccupied dwelling, which the City of Hazard condemned, to protect the occupied dwellings until a project could be designed and bid. March 9, 2011 was pre-bid meeting day; soon Jackson & Jackson Reclamation Services began slide stabilization measures. Slide material was removed from behind the residences on Moore Street, temporary debris barrier walls were constructed and soon after a rail-steel/guardrail retaining wall was installed near the toe of the slide. Work then began to stabilize and reconstruct Jordan Street. Unstable material was removed from above the street and replaced with a gabion retaining wall. The out slope edge of Jordan Street was drilled to install reinforced concrete caissons, thirty six inches in diameter on forty eight inch centers, to create a solid base for Jordan Street. Once the caissons were installed a reinforced concrete cap was poured and this became the outer edge of Jordan Street. Once the contractor performed bituminous repairs to Jordan Street the project was complete.
