Contractor: Dunwoody claiming warranty on issue he tried to prevent
before work, by Adam Murphy, 5/2/17
DUNWOODY, GA (CBS46) - About 15,000 cars a day travel on
Mt. Vernon Road in Dunwoody -- one of metro Atlanta’s busiest roadways -- and
less than two years after re-paving the road, there are now problems. “It’s
sinking. I can see it, all the way down,” driver Bobbie Mundy said. “Sinkholes
like that are unpredictable, there’s no question about it,” driver Brian Trout
added.
Contractors repaired a
water main under the road in 2015, and crews were instructed to backfill the
trench with loose stone instead of dirt, which is industry standard.
Alessandro Salvo owns GS
Construction. His company made the repairs, but not before warning city and
county leaders on numerous occasions that using stone would cause the road to
settle, or even sink.
“There’s no way to know
how much it’s going to settle,” Salvo said. “They view this as a warranty and
poor workmanship issue, and our response is that no, it’s not a poor
workmanship issue, this is a design flaw. We told you not to put this type of
stone here.”
In April, the city of
Dunwoody sent GS Construction a letter stating, "…the city is providing
notification of the defect within the two-year warranty period," but Salvo
said the city was forewarned and it’s now their problem to solve. “There’s no way I’m
coming out here to spend my own money to fix a problem that I went to the
mountain to warn everybody about what was coming,” Salvo said.
“They need to check on
that because it’s just too much going on in Atlanta right now with these
bridges and things. It’s dangerous. Somebody is going to get hurt,” Mundy said. Some drivers will
consider another route until the problem is solved, but there’s no indication
that’s happening anytime soon.
CBS46 contacted both the
city and county. The city of Dunwoody isn’t commenting because of legal
implications. DeKalb County is looking into it. Meanwhile, the road remains
open, which some say put drivers at risk.
Comments
Dunwoody has had new
road re-fixes in the past and Michael Smith, the City Public Works Director is
likely to blame for this latest problem. Geotechnical Engineering services to
ensure compaction for concrete work should be routine.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA
Tea Party Leader
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