Catoosa County OKs several road projects; Dietz Road will get complete repaving

Keith Greene, chairman of the Catoosa County Commission

Dietz Road, one of Catoosa County’s busier roads, is getting a full makeover.

The county in mid-August hired Talley Construction Co. of Rossville for $400,479 to redo an 800-foot stretch of Dietz Road south of Cloud Springs Road to lower a hill there and improve drivers’ sight lines. That work is under way.

Now more work is scheduled. Catoosa County commissioners voted unanimously this past week to pay Talley an additional $184,625 to resurface Dietz Road from Cloud Springs Road all the way to Battlefield Parkway.

“So the whole road will be a new road,” county Projects Administrator Christal Thomas said.

Funding comes from the 2009 special purpose local option sales tax, a voter-approved levy of 1 cent per $1 of sales.