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Marietta utility board reports $2 million-plus GEFA grant; city approves GDOT resurfacing contract additions
Summary
At a Sept. 8 City Council work session, the Board of Lights and Water (BLW) reported a GEFA grant to improve outage detection, reviewed utility financials and obtained council approval to place a GDOT U.S. 41 resurfacing contract (including three manhole/valve adjustments) on the Wednesday council agenda.
The Marietta Board of Lights and Water reported a more-than-$2 million grant from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority to expand outage-detection and isolation capabilities, and the City Council voted to move a Georgia Department of Transportation resurfacing contract for U.S. 41 forward for approval.
Michelle Richardson, who presented the BLW report to the council, said the GEFA award “came with a very nice sized grant, 2,000,000 plus,” and that the technology will improve the authority’s ability to detect and limit the impact of outages. Richardson described a recent weekend outage near Marietta Middle School that was narrowed from about 200 customers to roughly 65 because of faster detection.
Why it matters: the GEFA-funded improvements are intended to reduce customer impacts from outages and are tied to capital and operating budgets that begin affecting payments in 2027 and 2028. Separately, the GDOT resurfacing work on U.S. 41 (Cobb…
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