Sarah Trafton is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media an engineering firm has been engaged to evaluate a slope failure on County Route 2 in Prattsville. Greene County lawmakers August 19, approved Dente Group, of Watervliet, to be paid up to nearly $31,000 to evaluate the site. Greene County Highway Superintendent Robert Van Valkenburg said the slope failure is quite large. "It starts in the middle of one lane, goes to the outside of the lane, where the road has started to drop away,” he said. Approximately 250 feet of the road is affected. The failure has been progressing since 2010 when it was last evaluated, Van Valkenburg said. The engineers will take boring samples to determine the cause for the failure, and then propose a possible fix for the problem. Potential alternatives to repairing the road include closing the road, moving the road, or making a temporary repair, Van Valkenburg said. Read the full story at HudsonValley360 [dot] com.