Come

June, traffic problems will be worse around Sandy

Creek Road for awhile.

The

county will close the road for eight weeks,

tentatively starting the first week of June, to

replace a culvert that pipes a tributary of

Whitewater Creek under the road about a mile

north of its intersection with Ga. Highway 54.

Before

that happens, the public works department will

publicize the closing and give alternative route

information. Detour signs will be erected, and

the Board of Education and emergency services

will be notified so they can plan accordingly.

"It's

something we've got to do," said public

works director Lee Hearn. The bottom of the

culvert pipe is rusted out, he said, adding,

"There will be problems there with the road

if we don't go ahead and address this."

County

workers will do some of the work, and county

commissioners last week awarded a contract to

E.R. Snell Contractors to complete the job for

$98,111.55.

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