HENDERSONVILLE – The effort to repair the last Hendersonville-area roads still closed from Tropical Storm Helene damage got a win June 8 with the announcement of millions of dollars in FEMA obligations. Nonetheless, it will be years before the work is complete.
FEMA committed to reimbursing the North Carolina Department of Transportation $13.6 million for the project to repair Davis Mountain Road, or N.C. 1188, west of Laurel Park, according to an email viewed by the Times-News from FEMA Chief of Disaster Response and Recovery Jason Nelson.
Seven points along the road were hit by landslides that took out more than half its width in places and damaged more than 3,000 feet of pressurized sewer line buried under the pavement…