The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has announced that U.S. 431 at Tunnel Hill in Muhlenberg County has reopened, a month and a half after it was closed due to damage caused by an extended period of heavy rainfall.
Officials with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said their personnel and a contractor worked to repair the slide damage by laying new base material, repaving the roadway, and installing new guardrails at the site.
The final repairs to the damaged area were completed earlier Tuesday.
U.S. 431 at Tunnel Hill has been closed near Union Ridge Road and Myer’s Chapel Road south of Belton since early April due to significant damage from an active embankment slide.
According to state transportation officials, about 2,600 vehicles per day travel this road in southern Muhlenberg County, connecting Central City and Drakesboro to Lewisburg and Russellville in Logan County.
