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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. City spending $65,000 more with firm that led $832,000 ‘Blue Creek’ study Penny: Engineers to amend flood maps, provide less costly alternatives for $40M-plus project
Statesboro’s city government will pay Freese and Nichols, the multistate engineering and design firm that led an $832,000 feasibility study for the Creek on the Blue Mile project, $65,000 more to do an additional hydrology study of the floodplain in the project area.
City Council authorized the additional expenditure Tuesday morning. Besides updating flood insurance rate maps, the added study should allow city officials and the project’s promoters to consider less expensive alternatives to the original reservoir-based Creek on the Blue Mile Plan, said City Manager Charles Penny.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Whitesville couple displaced by Statesboro’s latest fire This mobile home belonging to Jon and Iris Brack in the Whitesville neighborhood was reduced to a burned-out shell by a fire Wednesday morning. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
A fire Wednesday morning that destroyed the home of Jon and Iris Brack on Joyce Street in the Whitesville community was the latest of several recent fires in Statesboro.
Jon Brack said he was on his way to work and his wife was at home when the fire was discovered.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Great American Cleanup set for Saturday Boro, Bulloch volunteers needed for ‘drive-thru’ event
Keep Statesboro Bulloch Beautiful is partnering with Ogeechee Riverkeeper to bring the Great American Cleanup back to Statesboro this spring. The event is set for 9 a.m. Saturday with COVID-19 safety measures in place.
All area residents are invited to come out and help clean up litter in designated zones around the city. For 2021, there will be a focus on cleaning up a specific area of Little Lotts Creek, in addition to cleaning city right-of-ways.
Cause of Statesboro apartment fire still under investigation wtoc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtoc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Creek on the Blue Mile doable but more costly than funded Reservoir and infrastructure estimate $40M-$65M Overall Concept for Creek on the Blue Mile Project
Number key
1./12. Reservoir and Diversion
2. Dam
3./4./8./9./10./11./13./14. Channel Improvements
5. Downstream Channel Transition Improvement
6. Spillway Conveyance
7. Local Drainage Conveyance
The Creek on the Blue Mile project is doable, but completing all the proposed public infrastructure aspects would likely cost between $40.2 million and $64.8 million, not merely the original $21 million in state funding and financing, consultants recently informed Statesboro city officials.