The Cobb Board of Commissioners will be asked by the Cobb Water System on Tuesday to approve nearly $7 million in funding for sewer repairs at five points along Sope Creek in East Cobb.
An agenda item for Tuesday’s regular business meeting said that a total of 2,070 linear feet of 12- and 36-inch ductile iron gravity sewer pipe needs to be relocated, including the removal of three aerial lines at bridges and installing new lines under the creek.
“Over time, Sope Creek has expanded and eroded the streambanks, exposing the existing sanitary sewer line that parallels the creek at two locations,” the agenda item states. “Also, trees, limbs, and other debris are washed down the creek during storms and collect on three aerial sewer lines that cross the creek, which puts them at risk of being damaged and requires regular maintenance to clear the debris.”
Those locations are creek overpasses at Lower Roswell Road, Indian Hills Drive and Holt Road.
Two other areas of Sope Creek, just below Lower Roswell and east of Holt Road and north of Old Sewell Road, also need to be repaired (see map).
Another 700 feet of channel protection material also needs to be installed to stabilize the streambank and “hinder further erosion,” the agenda item states.
A construction cost estimate for $6.765 million will come from the water system’s capital improvements budget, with additional expenses, including $135,000 from the county reserve fund, bringing the total cost to $6.989 million, according to the agenda item, which is on the commissioners’ consent calendar.
The request did not indicate a timetable for the repairs to be made.
Also on Tuesday, commissioners will hold an initial public hearing for proposed code amendments relating to animals, the environment, licenses, permits and businesses, zoning and administration.
The full agenda for the meeting can be found by clicking here.
It begins at 9 a.m. in the second floor board room of the Cobb government building (100 Cherokee St., downtown Marietta).
You also can watch on the county’s website and YouTube channels and on Cobb TV 23 on Comcast Cable.
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They should add Columns Drive to this list, The sewer needs to go deeper under the creek. It’s buried, but not deep enough and still affects flooding threat and erosion.