An aerial photo shows the extent of the landslide beneath Yeager Airport’s runway overrun area on July 15, 2015.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While the spring construction season appears to have arrived, work on clearing the remaining 200,000 cubic yards of Yeager Airport’s collapsed safety overrun area remains in a holding pattern until protocols for collecting samples of materials from the base of the slide for use as evidence in pending lawsuits are worked out in Kanawha Circuit Court.
Guidelines for conducting such forensic tests are expected to be taken up during an April 13 status hearing before Judge Joanna Tabit, Yeager Executive Director Terry Sayre told members of the Charleston Airport’s board of directors on Wednesday.
Until core drilling schedules and other sampling procedures are agreed upon, no slide removal work can be done, Sayre said.
About 300,000 cubic yards of rock and debris were removed from the slide zone last summer and fall.
Also on hold at the Charleston airport is an $8 million taxiway rehabilitation project already approved and 90-percent funded by the Federal Aviation Administration…
