SALYERSVILLE – Salyersville City Council met in regular session on Monday, discussing Salyersville Water Works’ bills, as well as opening day, just around the corner.
Mayor Stanley Howard announced in the meeting that the city and county have collaborated to update the center building at the park, behind the tennis courts, which has been used in recent years for storage. The bathrooms have been updated to be fully operational, now, giving them two sets of bathrooms operational at the park now.
Opening day for Magoffin County Youth Baseball/Softball is set for March 22, depending on the weather.
The council was also updated on Salyersville Water Works, which is losing a lot of its treated water through several
leaks in the main line that runs across the Magoffin County Plaza, which will be a task to fix and repair.
“We’ve got some bad water leaks in the – I call it the Pic-Pac parking lot,” Mayor Howard said. “We’re losing a lot of water. It’s coming right out of the blacktop in two places. Nobody knows where the lines are, what size they are, anything about them.”
Howard said a lot of the records and mapping was destroyed in the tornado*, with everything stored in the attic of Water Works and blown away when it was hit in 2012. He also said he checked with Summit Engineering, but they don’t have any records of those lines, either. *Unconfirmed. Former Mayor James “Pete” Shepherd says those records were not destroyed in the tornado and were available when he left office.*
Howard said he told Summit he wants the meters put back at the road (currently on the sidewalk in front of the buildings), and run a new line through the parking lot and tie each on up as they go and have the meters lined up with the highway. He said that will keep them from being responsible for the blacktop, which was the main concern of the businesses there. To repair the existing lines, they would have to dig through the parking lot just to find them, causing more damages they would be responsible for fixing.
The next Salyersville City Council meeting is tentatively set for March 17 at 7:30 p.m.
