County board to talk bypass exits
By Steve Herring
Published in News on December 1, 2014 1:46 PM
Officials with Dewberry Engineers will present a proposal for an engineering study of utility needs at the new interchanges being created by the new U.S. 70 Goldsboro Bypass at the Tuesday meeting of the Wayne County Board of Commissioners.
The proposal will look at Interstate 795 interchanges as well.
Ensuring that utilities will be available at the U.S. 70 interchanges has been a much-talked about topic among commissioners since the bypass project was fast-tracked several years ago by the state.
The concern has been that the infrastructure is needed in order to spur development at those interchanges that in turn would generate property and sales tax revenues for the county.
Ground was broken for the project in October 2008. The first section opened in December 2011. The entire project is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2016.
The presentation will be made during the commissioners' meeting that gets under way with an agenda briefing at 8 a.m. The formal session will get start at 9 a.m. Both will be held in the commissioners' meeting room on the fourth floor of the county courthouse annex.
The Wayne County Freeway Development Plan, developed by the Wayne County Planning Department, has identified the existing and proposed interchanges:
* I-795 : Pikeville-Princeton Road at Pikeville; N.C. 222 at Fremont; U.S. 70 at Goldsboro (W. Grantham Street).
* U.S. 70 Bypass: U.S. 70 West in the Rosewood community; N.C. 581 in the Rosewood community; Wayne Memorial Drive at Goldsboro; U.S. 13 north of Goldsboro; Parkstown Road northeast of Goldsboro; U.S. 70 East at Lenoir County line; U.S. 117 (William Street).
* U.S. 117 South (future I-795 to Mount Olive): Ash Street; Old Mount Olive Highway at Goldsboro; U.S. 13 South at Goldsboro; O'Berry Road at Dudley; Country Club Road at Mount Olive; N.C. 55 at Mount Olive; new interchange (assumed location) at Mount Olive.
The study will look at preliminary costs projections for extending water and sewer capacity to each interchange as well as possible funding sources.
The county does not own or operate water treatment or distribution systems or wastewater treatment or collection systems.
Goldsboro owns and operates both and there are seven sanitary districts in the county.