What started as a 3-4 week sidewalk project on Level Grove Road in mid-July turned into a 6-month-long construction undertaking after the contractor working on the project found a series of unmarked water and sewer lines under the road.
This lead to Level Grove Road being closed for 4 months, finally reopening the day before Thanksgiving, but the road still wasn’t in the shape many Cornelia residents and Habersham County drivers wanted to see it in.
With much of the road unpaved and construction equipment still in the area, residents are wondering when travel on the road will return to normal.
Cornelia City Manager Dee Anderson says that the roadwork should be completed by the end of next month, even with the cold and rainy weather Habersham has seen in the past week.
“The contractor is working as fast as he can, but material delays and weather play a factor [in completing the work] because you cannot pour concrete or asphalt in cold weather,” Anderson says. “I am confident that the project should be completed by the end of February.”
For the work to be completed, the rest of the sidewalk will need to be paved, drainage work near United Community Bank will need to be completed and the road needs to be paved.
Anderson assures the public that even with this work that still needs to be done, the road will not be closed again.
