Crews Persist Through Winter Weather to Complete Ditch Project

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) — Winter weather has not yet held up a $1.6 million project to transform traffic and drainage along a busy Columbus connector road.

Two different contractors are cleaning out creosote filled ditch along six blocks of 14th Avenue North and replacing it with a new concrete lined drainage.

Once done, the old ditch will be filled in and a third lane added to 14th Avenue.

The project borders the old Tronox railroad tie plant which is now a federal superfund clean up site.

City leaders may improve the intersection at Martin Luther King Drive and the property to make marketing the site easier in the future.

Federal funds are paying for about $1 million of the work while the city is chipping in $500,000.

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