CHARLESTON, WV – West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) district forces will repair a slip on Prosperity Road in Raleigh County with a piling wall after a further section of roadway slipped over the weekend.
WVDOH District 10 Engineer Ryland Musick said a section of Prosperity Road experienced a slip at approximately mile marker 4.4 back in February. District 10 work crews had initially planned to repair the slip using soil nails – long steel bolts driven horizontally deep into the hillside to keep the hill from slipping further.
However, the slip worsened over the weekend of Friday, March 7, 2025, and is now about 100 feet long. One lane of the two-lane road is gone.
Musick said District 10 engineers will design a piling wall as a permanent repair for the slip. Piling walls are built by driving steel beams vertically deep into the ground to support concrete slabs. The hillside will be backfilled behind the concrete slabs and the road rebuilt.
A utility pole will have to moved to install the piling wall. Engineers are currently working on the project design, and construction is expected to start later this spring.