Excellent way of improving the quality of life in Augusta.
Work began this week on a five-month project to expand, improve and realign parking areas and access trails at the Augusta Canal headgates area.
The series of improvementswill include a new, larger parking lot near the existing gravel parking lot. "The gravel lot will be almost doubled, so when all this is done, not only will you have access to what used to be gravel -- and will be asphalted -- but there will be a second lot."
The project also includes a new bicycle path that will extend from the park entrance on Evans to Locks Road along a strip of land leased by the county from Martin-Marietta, which owns the adjoining quarry property. The trail will eventually lead down the steep hill to the footbridge over the canal near Reed Creek. One of the trail's benefits is that it will separate bicycles and pedestrians from the busy parking lots and motor vehicles.
The work also includes three new picnic pavilions at the headgates area, she said. "One of them is 20-by-40 feet and two are 20 by 20 and all can be rented," she said. Amenities that will be included are ceiling fans and grills. The area will even have a doggie drinking fountain.
Work on trails, parking begins at headgates
Welcome to City-Data.com forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with 700,000 other registered members. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your free account you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 15,000 posts/day about local topics and you will see fewer ads. 
Augusta Canal project to start
Linear Mode
