The Mathews County Board of Supervisors, during its regular meeting last Thursday, got a look at the concept plan for Phase II of the Main Street Enhancement Project. This phase will involve making drainage, safety, streetscape and sidewalk improvements to Main Street from the Food Lion north to Hyco Corner.
Robbie Roach of Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB), a Massachusetts-based design and engineering firm with offices in Williamsburg, told supervisors that his company is familiar with the challenges that Mathews faces in terms of stormwater drainage, traffic, and other conditions because it did Phase I of the project, which involved improvements starting at Food Lion and continuing south to Kingston Parish House. He showed a number of photos that illustrated some of the obstacles that had to be overcome—one of a flooded work space in the Food Lion parking lot, another of rusted underground pipes, and a third of a round existing pipe that was going to have to connect to two new oval pipes...