Also from 1/17/13 meeting.
Mayor Blum
stated but before we do any repairs, so
to speak to the runway surfaces, he would invite every St. Clair resident,
every county resident, everyone in the state of Missouri, in the United States
to go down and look at that runway and then go travel our city streets and tell
me which one is in worse repair.
This Blum hole in the taxiway is a prop eater, it can not be seen while taxing, and it is covered in the standing water after the slightest rain fall. (see next picture). In the case of a Cirrus 22, prop $35,000, engine tear down and inspection in excess of $50,000.
I went down the runway yesterday, Wednesday, checking the lights, they were on during the day, there goes a waste of money. Anyway, about 3/4's of the way down, a boulder, about 12"x6"x6" was in the middle of the runway. I picked it up and put it on the side of the runway. I have to assume the city was putting fill into the hole on the side of the runway and somehow some of it fell off the truck. That could have been disasterous to a prop or a wheel.
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