GDOT Restores Depression-Era Culverts With Its Own Workers

Often, when the infrastructure deficit is mentioned, what comes to mind immediately is roads and bridges built in the 1960s or under the Eisenhower administration's efforts to establish the Interstate Highway System. In the case of one $160,000 project, however, the Georgia Department of Transportation's Northeast District took on the challenge of repairing deteriorating culverts in mountainous area of White County on State Route 17 — near Andrew's Cove camp ground, north of Helen — that were built in 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression....

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