Water lines to be upgraded

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BY SUSAN NORMAN

Barrow County’s government is preparing to relocate and upgrade more than a mile of water lines in connection with the state’s planned improvement of the intersection of highways 124 and 211.

The Barrow County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 9 unanimously approved the expenditure of up to $49,000 for Jordan, Jones & Goulding Inc. to engineer the relocation and replacement of the water infrastructure.

The engineers have yet to determine the exact scope and cost of the utility project, but preliminary plans call for the replacement of 6,100 linear feet of water main and the relocation of related infrastructure, including a “water meter vault” that will be moved to a site adjacent to Beaver Dam Road.

About half of the new 12-inch water main will be installed along Highway 124 from Old Victron School Road to the intersection at Highway 211.

The other half of the new 12-inch main will replace the existing 8-inch main along Highway 211 from the Highway 124 intersection to Beaver Dam Road, where the line will be connected to the relocated meter vault.

Water service lines, fire hydrants and valves also will be moved as part of the utility improvement, which is expected to cost up to $620,000, according to county documents.

No construction date has been set for the utility work, because Georgia Department of Transportation officials have yet to move forward with the intersection improvement.

However, Myron Garrett, the county’s water department director, said the intersection improvement has been planned for years and GDOT currently expects to move forward with construction as soon as June 2011.

The intersection improvement is to include the construction of left-turn lanes, right-turn lanes, and through lanes for both highways, according to GDOT’s website.

In other action Nov. 9, the BOC approved the Barrow County Water & Sewerage Authority’s purchase of about 1.6 acres adjacent to the Old Holsenbeck Fire Station site off Hwy. 211.

The authority is in the process of remodeling the building for its offices and plans to construct a new water tower on the former fire station site. However, authority members want to purchase the neighboring parcel to provide for any future expansion that may be needed in the years to come, said Garrett.

He said the vacant fire station is 80 feet deep and large enough to accommodate office space, storage and maintenance equipment.

“But in the future, when the water authority grows, that will allow them to expand the office on the right side of the building,” Garrett said.

The property was appraised at $35,000, but the land owners — Robert Wayne Clark and Lucinda Wallace Clark — held firm on their $45,000 asking price due to the property’s more than 400 feet of road frontage on Hwy. 211.

The BOC vote authorizing the authority to move forward with the purchase was 5-1, with Larry Joe Wilburn voting no.
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