After several delays, the Cobb Board of Commissioners this week approved a $2.3 million contract to replace the Willeo Creek Bridge, which connects the city of Roswell with the roundabout at Lower Roswell and Timber Ridge roads in East Cobb.
The low bidder of six was Baldwin Paving Co., and the funding will come from the county’s 2016 SPLOST.
The joint project with the city of Roswell will replace the 60-year-old, 120-foot long bridge at Lower Roswell Road and Willeo Road in Roswell.
The construction also will include guardrail improvements and a pedestrian sidewalk along Lower Roswell.
The process to replace the bridge started in 2015 with intergovernmental agreements between Cobb and Roswell. There were language revisions in 2017 that called for both jurisdictions to share engineering, utility relocation and construction costs.
They are individually responsible for right-of-way acquisitions, with Cobb DOT overseeing all engineering and construction activities.
A change in state law and more language clarifications prompted another change in the IGA in 2018.
Cobb has spent $571,000 for engineering and design work, and in October the city of Roswell spent $70,000 and began expedited right-of-way purchases.
According to a Cobb DOT agenda item at Tuesday’s meeting, the project will take a year to complete.
Cobb Commissioner Bob Ott, whose District 2 includes the bridge area, said he was very glad to be able to vote for the project before he leaves office at the end of December.
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