Emergency Maintenance Road Repair on SR 17/75 White County

This report covers the emergency maintenance road repair of SR 17/75 in White County. This is in reference to our field visit on August 2, 2001 concerning emergency work to repair a slide on SR 17/75 in White County. This project plans to fix the potential landslide on Highway 17/75. It is steep fill slope and it is washing out below the road. Georgia DOT plans to do emergency work and fix this road. The area of concern is located approximately 12 miles north of the City of Helen, at milepost 14.6. The repair will involve removing the existing vegetation, re-constructing a temporary access road (which was used in the original climbing lane construction), backfilling the slide to regain the integrity of the road, and resurfacing the roadway. The temporary access road is located approximately 175 feet from the slide and will be utilized to gain access to the repair site. In order to reclaim this road, we will need to cut down approximately 4-7 tree (polar and black locus) estimated at 8” diameter of the largest of these. We will remove a couple of sections of guardrail, which will then be replaced. A routine cultural heritage resources survey was conducted on the following undertaking planned for lands within the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests, under the Programmatic Agreement (PA) between the Southern Region, USDS Forest Service, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the Georgia State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests and the Georgia SHPO. No cultural resources (historic properties) were found within the Area of Potential Effect of the proposed project, so there are no historic properties affected, and thus no effect on the cultural heritage of the National Forests and the area by this project.