Residents in Noble, Ga., plan to finalize a petition Monday night asking Walker County officials, FEMA and federal and state representatives why East Reed Road has been impassible for four months.
“The guys in the community have threatened to get their backhoes and bulldozers and fix it themselves,” said Dr. David Boyle, president of the Noble Neighborhood Association.
A bridge on East Reed Road went down during flooding in September. County officials blame the lack of repair on slow response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and uncertainty over the design for the fix.
Walker County Coordinator David Ashburn said he’s expecting the final documents from FEMA any day, but said he should have already had them.
“We’ve been waiting now eight weeks for what they originally said would be four to six weeks,” he said.