Franklin
County Commissioners have awarded the bid to relocate a portion of
Gulf Shore Boulevard at Alligator Point to Piggot Asphalt and
Sitework out of Medart.
Piggot
was one of 7 companies to bid on the job, and they had the lowest
acceptable bid at around 150 thousand dollars.
The
highest bid was nearly 250 thousand.
The
company will now move about 800 feet of Gulf Shore Boulevard further
away from the Gulf to protect it from further erosion and storm
damage.
That
section of road was washed out by Tropical Storm Debby in 2012 and
the county replaced it with a temporary unpaved road.
That
was washed out in 2016 by Hurricane Hermine and replaced by another
unpaved temporary access road.
The
project will be funded mostly by FEMA, though the county will have to
cover some of the costs.
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