Chattooga County has a number of bridges that are listed as “structurally deficient” by the Georgia Department of Transportation.  There are 114 bridges in the county and of those, there are 23 in need of repair or corrective action.  One bridge, over Selman Creek near the Gore Fire Hall, has been closed.

But there is some good news.  Chattooga County is part of over $38 million in transportation grants that have been announced from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, so far.  There could be more money coming from the Feds.

Chattooga County is slated to get $161,912 for the preliminary engineering work that needs to be done on the bridge that crosses over Mosteller Creek in Lyerly.  That bridge is deemed as needing repair or corrective action and is considered to be structurally deficient and in “poor” condition.

Chattooga County is getting less than $200,000 in this first round of funding, but other counties fared much better.  Floyd County is getting $3.5 million and Gordon County is getting $19.6 million.

Signed by President Biden on Nov. 15, 2021, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is the largest long-term investment in infrastructure and the economy in U.S. history. It will provide $550 billion through 2026 for roads, bridges, mass transit, water infrastructure, environmental resilience, and broadband.