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June 16, 2008
U.S. 1/East Camden Sewer Project
6.16.2008
By JIM TATUM
C-I (Camden, S.C.) associate editor
Work has begun on the U.S. 1/east Camden sewer project.
Motorists on U.S. 1 have likely seen brush cut on the side of the road, piles of new pipe stacked in bundles or workers milling asphalt from the surface of the median.
Kershaw County Administra-tor Bobby Boland said if work goes well, the sewer line installation could be finished by mid-autumn.
“They’ve started on the force main on the side of the road, and now they’re milling the asphalt to get it out of the way,” Boland said.
Once workers remove the asphalt, they can then saw open the concrete to install the line, he explained. When the line is installed, the S.C. Department of Transportation (DOT) will then resurface U.S. 1.
“By doing the project before DOT resurfaces the road, the county will save a lot of money,” Boland noted.
The county awarded a $3.077 million bid in January to Triangle Grading and Paving of Burlington, N.C.; the county will pay for this through grant funds and a loan from the S.C. Budget and Control Board.
County officials point out this project is a commercial venture and predict the sewer project will jump-start an economic re-development of the east Cam-den area once the line is in place, much like what has happened in Elgin since sewer service was brought to that area. However, long-range plans include the addition of residential trunk lines in that area.
The U.S. 1/east Camden sewer project is Phase IV of the county’s multi-phase, multi-million-dollar economic development project designed to bring infrastructure to all interchanges located in Kershaw County along I-20, the town of Elgin and east Camden, as well as build a new, expanded capacity sewer treatment plant. To commemorate this latest undertaking, Kershaw County will hold a groundbreaking at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the vicinity of Hermitage Baptist Church on U.S. 1 in Camden. Parking will be available at the church.
The project, which was implemented in 2000, was designed to build infrastructure to handle the needs of commercial and industrial entities.
The next step, said county officials, is to prepare for an expansion of treatment capacity at the new wastewater treatment plant as well as put together another five-year plan that will designate locations for line extensions into developing areas.
(Contact Jim Tatum at 432-6157 or county@ci-camden.com.)
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