As work continues on the Trigg County Schools vocational renovation, district staff and contractors have been able to take a walk through time — reviewing old plans while implementing the new.
A recent discovery, however, wasn’t on current schematics.
During last Thursday’s Board of Education meeting, Sherman Carter Barnhart architect Andrew Owens revealed that a pair of coal chambers were unearthed along the east side during some plumbing placement — still partially filled with coal and a few old tin soda cans.
Matt Ladd, director of operations, described their location.
The “vacuuming out” and hauling of the coal will cost around $4,400, and Owens added that essentially a flowable fill — similar to soil — will take its place.
Owens said that a mining expert was recently brought on site to review the coal’s burning viability, just to check on the natural resource’s economic value.
A question from Theresa Allen, board member, spurred even further discussion.
Trigg County’s efforts to remodel and renovate its vocational building stem from a $10 million grant, bequeathed from Gov. Andy Beshear and the Kentucky General Assembly in 2022.
