By this time next year, a small pond and greenspace could stand on College Drive on the property currently occupied by the old Chamber of Commerce building.
The board of Dalton Utilities voted unanimously on Monday to place the destruction of the building and construction of the pond out for bids. Bids are due Nov. 14, and the board expects to award the project in January. The project will be funded by the city government.
“It will be a wet pond, which is basically regional stormwater infrastructure that is designed to contain some of the water flow coming off the mountain so it doesn’t hit (McClellan Creek) as hard,” said Mark Marlowe, Dalton Utilities senior vice president of watershed management.
The City Council gave Dalton Utilities responsibility for managing stormwater within the city limits four years ago. In addition, utility officials say the state requires them to manage stormwater as a condition of the utility’s wastewater permits.
Dalton Utilities officials have long identified flooding along McClellan Creek as one of the city’s major problem areas. Utility officials say water running off Dug Gap Mountain during a storm erodes the creek banks, eating up property along the creek and polluting it. They say water races off the mountain so swiftly and in such large amounts because of all the development that has taken place there over the past 40 years or so.
Dalton Utilities President and CEO Don Cope said the College Drive pond is just the first phase of work to contain flooding on McClellan Creek, and the utility will be looking for more ways to contain the water coming off the mountain.
“This (the College Drive pond) gives us the most bang for the buck,” he said.
City officials acquired the property from the chamber earlier this year, and the chamber moved into the old post office on Hamilton Street downtown, which is owned by the city, this summer.
Plans for the pond also call for landscaping and beautification around the site.
“It will have a walking path around it. You’ll be able to see the waterfall that’s coming off the mountain,” Marlowe said.
The Dalton Utilities board also voted unanimously to accept a $547,089.60 bid from C.H. Kirkpatrick of Cartersville to extend a sewer to the landfill. The project will be funded by the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority.
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September 18, 2012
City/Dalton Utilities look to control flooding on McClellan Creek
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Police and Fire Games: Dalton firefighter snags second place
Mason Martin, back right, cheers on his mother, Serena Martin, an officer with the Dalton Police Department, as she pushes a patrol car as part of an obstacle course to determine the “Toughest Overall” during the Georgia Police and Fire Games on Monday at the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Department’s firing range. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)
A seasoned Dalton firefighter placed second in the Toughest Overall Competitor event at the Police and Fire Games in Dalton on Monday.
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