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Wednesday, November 14,2018
dawsonnews.com I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I 3A
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Construction
done during construction of the
continuous flow intersection at
Hwy. 53 and Ga. 400, the county
had to wait for the work there to be
done before they could work on the
turn lanes.
The county continues planning to
overhaul Lumpkin Campground
Road in its entirety.
Another long awaited project
could also get underway soon as
construction on the Black’s Mill
Road bridge is expected to start in
January.
In July 2017, GDOT provided
notice to the county that the bridge
would need to be closed because it
was structurally deficient and the
bridge has remained closed since,
forcing residents to detour around
it.
The county tried to acquire sur
plus materials from GDOT for a
new bridge but there were none
available, so the county contracted
Southeastern Engineering in
February to develop a design for a
new bridge, and $33,700 was spent
on the drawings and specifications.
The county put out a bid for con
struction in August and McKee is
asking the board to award the
$375,000 contract to Georgia
Bridge and Concrete and to approve
the expenditure of $233,700 of
SPLOST VI funds.
The bridge will still be a one-lane
bridge, but widened by five feet,
and will be able to withstand the
weight of emergency service vehi
cles and school buses, which the
current bridge cannot.
“As part of this bid we asked the
contractor to remove and dispose of
the existing bridge,” McKee said.
“The new bridge is longer than the
bridge that’s there. If you recall,
y’all tasked me with developing a
product that’s in keeping with the
environment that’s there. The
stacked stone abutments, they’ll
stay just like they are, we’ll come
back beyond that and put the new
abutments in, set the bridge struc
ture on top of the new abutments.”
McKee said the county will haul
off any excess materials that are at
the site and will be responsible for
resetting the road grades once the
contractor is done, as the road
would be elevated around six or
eight inches on each end.
January is the estimated start date
for the project, though the steel
bridge will not arrive for some time.
“The actual construction time is
not that long, the long time is going
to be the 18 to 20 weeks it’s going
to take from the time we order the
bridge to the time it’s here,” McKee
said.
McKee also presented a grant
application for road repairs in three
county subdivisions.
The application is for a Local
Maintenance and Improvement
(LMIG) grant, which is a GDOT
program that gives local govern
ments greater flexibility to deliver
projects in a timely manner with
revenue from State Motor Fuel Tax
collections.
Last year the county was awarded
funds to repair A.T. Moore Road
and Mt. Vernon Drive as well as the
Biscayne subdivision. Repairs pro
posed this year include several
roads in the Dawson Junction sub
division off Dawson Forest Road;
roads in the Hightower Industrial
Park off Hwy. 53; and Amicalola
Drive in the Amicalola Chase
Subdivision off Hwy. 136 and
Crane Road.
This year the county is eligible to
receive $414,931.34 and the coun
ty’s 30 percent match of around
$124,000 would bring the project
budget up to $539,410.47. McKee
said that the projects he is propos
ing would cost approximately
$638,000.
“We will expend slightly more
than our 30 percent match and my
purpose for that is to get some of
these projects (where) we have
scored the roads and we see the
scores are very insufficient,”
McKee said. “What we have not
done as of late is our subdivisions.”
If the county submits the applica
tion and the grant is awarded, work
on the projects would start around
March or April 2019, according to
McKee.
The board also heard a proposal
to contract a company to renovate
the exterior of the gym at Veterans
Memorial Park. The board voted in
February to approve the project in
the amount of $250,000, to be fund
ed from SPLOST VI.
County staff have asked for the
board to accept a bid from Everlast
Construction Group in an amount
not to exceed $235,140.
The board could vote to approve
the requests at its Nov. 15 meeting,
which will be held at 6 p.m. in the
second floor assembly room of the
Dawson County Government Center.
For the Dawson County News
Dawson County Tax Commissioner Nicole Stewart and Chamber of Commerce
President Christie Moore, both Rotarians, went shopping this past weekend for
the annual freeThanksgiving dinner hosted by the Rotary Club of Dawson County.
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Thanksgiving
fellowship. We all live in Dawson County
so it’s important to get to know each
other,” she said.
The club budgeted for the meal as well
as received monetary donations from
United Community Bank, Associated
Credit Union, Medical Plaza 400, Etowah
Water and Sewer Authority and Amicalola
EMC to help fund the event.
The park is located at 186 Recreation
Road, off Hwy. 9 North, in Dawsonville.
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