Don’t look now but it is potentially possible, weather permitting, that the final dredging activities on Lake Peachtree could be finished this week.
Fayette County Administrator Steve Rapson on Monday used the locally well-known phrase in conjunction with the presumed end of dredging.
“Hopefully by Wednesday, weather permitting. And if not, probably by Friday,” Rapson said of the last day of work in the lake.
Once out of the lake, crews will still have to restore Drake Field and the area between Drake and Ga. Highway 54 that has been used as a driveway to haul off the debris.
Once completed, the county’s dredging project to remove 64,000 cubic yards of material will be history. It will be a history that took a year to complete due to sporadic but heavy rains that sometimes slowed the work to a snails-pace.
The last time the lake was full was the fall-winter of 2013.
Meantime, work also funded by Fayette County on the Lake Peachtree spillway that required boring and filling the void areas was completed last summer and is expected to be good for the next 20-30 years.
