Repairing Piedmont Road is going to be a big undertaking.

Nathalie Bowers, ECUA spokeswoman, said from the utility’s perspective Piedmont Road may prove a bigger challenge than Scenic Highway.

“Scenic Highway is a huge issue, but we’ve made repairs there, there’s water there and there was no sewer line going through there,” Bowers says. “We’ve restored water service to Piedmont but the issue there is with wastewater collection. None of those homes have sewer service because there are no lines.”

Bowers says that Steve Sorrell, executive director of the ECUA, met with city officials Friday morning and the city has hired Hatch Mott McDonald to manage the project.

“We’re going to be working within the scope of that contract and we’re coordinating with them,” Bowers says. “The city is the lead on that.”

As early as next week work will begin in that area, she says. The Health Department is ordering portable toilets and wash stations for that area.

“I think we’re working to try to let people stay in their homes,” she says.

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