Rain delays resurfacing work

RIDGELAND — When the rain stops, city officials say they will finish paving a roughly 3-mile stretch of the Highland Colony Parkway from Steed Road to the city limits.

Public Works Director Mike McCollum said a mill and overlay project using county funds had gotten them from the roundabout to Steed Road in mid-April. 

The project has been temporarily held up, according to Mayor Gene McGee, due to weather. The remainder of the project was supposed to commence on Monday, May 10.

“Rain has held them up,” McGee said. “Most likely they will begin next week if the rain stops.”

At the May 4 regularly scheduled mayor and board of aldermen meeting, McCollum requested $600,000 from the general fund from the city board to complete the Highland Colony repaving project to the city limits line. 

McGee said that he approved of the project. He said that it would be good to finish the project in case the price of asphalt were to go up and that there was an aesthetic benefit to the city.

“It will be good to make the roadway consistent with the work that has been done out there,” McGee said.

The board approved the motion unanimously on the consent agenda.

McCollum said the project was started with some $880,000 in county funds from the board of supervisors. He said that in addition to Highland Colony, the county funds were used for mill and overlay projects citywide including portions of Ridgewood and Richardson Roads.

Back in 2016, county supervisors approved roadwork to pave Highland Colony Parkway fromCounty Line Road to Old Agency Road.