Published on Northside Sun (http://www.northsidesun.com)

Home > Trace closure result of Yazoo clay damage

Trace closure result of Yazoo clay damage

By KATIE EUBANKS

Sun Staff Writer

THE NATIONAL Park Service is spending $750,000 and has shut down eight miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway to fix a problem caused by something many Northsiders are familiar with: Yazoo clay.

Crews with Miami-based Dozier and Dozier Construction are digging out and rebuilding a half-mile stretch near milepost 94.8, west of Ridgeland, that has sunken in after a slide occurred between weathered and un-weathered layers of clay.

Please subscribe [1] and log in [2] for the rest of the story.

Copyright 2012 The Northside Sun - For 40 years, Covering Northeast Jackson, Madison and Ridgeland.

Source URL: http://www.northsidesun.com/content/trace-closure-result-yazoo-clay-damage

Links:
[1] http://www.northsidesun.com/content/subscribe
[2] http://www.northsidesun.com/user
[3] http://www.northsidesun.com/category/featured/featured
[4] http://www.northsidesun.com/category/section/news/local-news
[5] http://www.northsidesun.com/category/tags/natchez-trace-parkway
[6] http://www.northsidesun.com/category/tags/yazoo-clay