Russ Flagg, left, a landowner and board member of Mile 10 Owners Road Association on Monday surveys a 30-foot erosion of Old Spencer Road in Upper Enchanted Township. The deep crevice was caused by a heavy rainstorm and flood last month. Property owners on the private roads are hoping for financial help to repair them, and a representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture visited the unorganized territory of Somerset County to see the damage.

Joe Gagnon, left, landowner and president of the Mile 10 Owners Road Association and Russ Flagg, a landowner and board member, discuss the need for repairs to storm-damaged private roads and bridges in Somerset County's unorganized territory.

A sign adds a little humor to the devastation on Slim Haggle Road in Upper Enchanted Township. Sections of the road are barely passable from a heavy rain storm last month.

State Rep. Larry Dunphy, R-District 118, left, and Dan Baumert of the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service, discuss a bridge damaged by heavy rain and flooding last month in Upper Enchanted Township. An excavator operator ditches the washed-out road in backgropund.

Russ Flagg, left, a landowner and board member of Mile 10 Owners Road Association on Monday, looks up at a delegation of other landowners and officials on top of the washed-out Old Spencer Road in Upper Enchanted Township. The group was surveying storm damage that happened to the private road, and others in the area, last month.

Dan Baumert, left, of the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service, and Blaine Miller of Dirigo Timberland look at damage to the foundation of a bridge on Old Spencer Road in Upper Enchanted Township on Monday.

A delegation of landowners, legislators, an official from the USDA, and others travel on Old Spencer Road in Upper Enchanted Township in Somerset County Monday, past an eroded and washed-out section caused by a storm last month.

Caused by last month heavy rain storm twisted steel culverts lie beside Old Spencer Road in Upper Enchanted Twp. on Monday.