Starting this week of January 11, Rampart Construction Company, contractor for the Arlo development, will begin construction of a new sanitary sewer line in East Maple Street. This work has been required by DeKalb County Watershed Management and is being done to provide additional sewer capacity for the Arlo residents and businesses. Work is expected to take six weeks of good weather, starting on the west end of East Maple at North McDonough Street and moving east to Church Street. During that time Rampart will provide traffic control. The road will be closed to thru-traffic during construction and will be changed to a two-way street for local residents and businesses. Parking on East Maple Street will be prohibited during construction.
Rampart has given out flyers and done door-to-door visits to inform property owners of the coming work and the City’s engineering department is in the process of providing alternate parking on North McDonough Street when needed. The work will be done in phases to limit the disturbance, and access to driveways will be maintained as much as possible. Plates will be used during non-work hours so that the road will be fully open and the sidewalks will remain open at all times. If you have questions, feel free to contact Project Civil Engineer Jennings Bell at 678-553-6529 or D.E.C. Director John Maximuk at 678-553-6570.
Why wasn’t this done when the City had the road open earlier in ’15 under the GDOT contract?
DeKalb County is responsible for water and sanitary sewer service in the City of Decatur. During construction of the downtown storm drainage improvements in 2013-14 — which was funded by the City’s storm water utility, not by GDOT — the City relied on DeKalb County to determine if water and sanitary sewer lines in East Maple Street needed to be upgraded. At that time, DeKalb County decided that only the water line required replacement.