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Sewer line being moved so pedestrian/bicycling tunnel can be built under Atlanta Highway
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Ground is dug up near the location where an unexpected sewer line was found while clearing land for a pedestrian/bicycling tunnel for the Highlands to Islands trail along Atlanta Highway near the Georgia Department of Labor office in Gainesville. The discovery has delayed the trail’s construction and has added costs to the project. - photo by Erin O. Smith
A $120,000 sewer line project is underway to clear the way for construction of a pedestrian/bicycling tunnel as part of a newly opened section of the Highlands to Islands Trail. Hall County officials have long planned to extend the trail from the Chicopee Woods side of Atlanta Highway/Ga. 13 to the west side of the road via a 10-foot-wide tunnel that is essentially a box culvert. But they ran into an obstacle “when we were getting ready to build the tunnel … (and) discovered it was in conflict” with an existing sewer line, public utilities director Ken Rearden has said.