Right now, the small pool of water behind a pile of plastic-covered dirt doesn’t seem worthy of such a major construction project.
But when heavy rains hit the area last week, a torrent of runoff water soon filled the creek bed and threatened to climb over the dirt and sandbags blocking its path, where it would have entered a double concrete culvert that’s being installed by Whitfield County Public Works crews under Beaverdale Road.
Wednesday morning, under non-threatening skies, county worker Craig Springfield carefully spread out a layer of dirt with his dozer, then came back driving a compactor to compress the dirt, right next to the nearly 500,000 pounds worth of concrete culvert sections. After other members of the crew brought him more dirt in a dump truck, he did it all over again, a step he will repeat until the road becomes level on each side of the culvert.
