Fort Oglethorpe’s Stuart Street road extension project has received state funding with the help of state Sen. Jeff Mullis.

The funds were redirected from the LaFayette Road streetscaping project.

Arcadis U.S. Inc. of Chattanooga is overseeing the project, which will lengthen Stuart Street to City Hall.

The extension will begin at the bridge where Stuart Street ends and will continue through the woods around the back of City Hall’s newest parking lot, said Arcadis senior planner and designer Terry Reynolds.

The goal of the project, he said, is to connect those neighborhoods to City Hall, so residents will not have to drive on Battlefield Parkway to get to City Hall.

The project is “ready to go,” city manager Ron Goulart said. The designs and plans have been completed, and all of the government regulations and standards have been met.

Goulart said the project will go to the bidding phase later this month or early in June.

At the Fort Oglethorpe City Council meeting on Monday, June 8, city clerk Harold Silcox proposed rerouting the project in order to save the trees behind the parking lot.

Goulart said one problem with this proposal is that rerouting the road will compromise parking spaces. In order to have Dalton State College on the municipal campus, there has to be a certain ratio of parking spaces available for students.

Part of the project, he said, is to landscape around the new road.

“It will really be nice when we get through,” Goulart said.

Sewerage project reaches Cloud Springs Road

The sunny May 30 and 31 weekend allowed construction crews to lay sewerage pipe under Cloud Springs Road for the second phase of Fort Oglethorpe’s West Chickamauga Interceptor project.

The road closure, which reduced the road to one lane, was rescheduled twice due to rain.

At the regular Fort Oglethorpe City Council meeting on June 8, Goulart thanked building official Mark Lindsay and his department for working during the night and weekend to avoid having to close one lane of Cloud Springs Road for another weekend.

The second phase of the sewerage project will continue near the north end of Cloud Springs Road, where the first phase left off. The pipe will connect to the piece that was just laid under the road and then continue to the Mitchell Acres oxidation pump.

The first phase of the project is “almost” complete, Goulart said.

What is left is to get the pump station working.