Whitfield Commissioners Vote to Extend Sewer to Strain Road

DALTON, Georgia (WDEF) – In Georgia, the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners has voted to extend sewer lines three miles north to Strain Road.

The decision was made with the expectation that over one thousand homes will be built in that area.

“The developer that we’ve been working with for several months in this project has agreed to close on this property, so our development is contingent on him closing. And he will put approximately eleven-hundred homes on these four hundred acres right behind me,” said Jevin Jenson, Chairman of the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners.

Currently, there are one-hundred-three thousand people living in Whitfield County, but the number of single family homes is only ninety-three.

The development of the new subdivision, Camden Farms, is intended to provide more housing for those who work in the region.

“A lot of people come into our county every day to work, thousands of people, but they go back home to Catoosa, to Cleveland and Chattanooga, because there are no new homes that have been built since the start of the century,” said Jenson.

While the extension of sewer lines to the prospective subdivision has been approved, construction will not begin until soil tests, topography, and other due diligence has been completed.

“As soon as they do that, we will start extending the sewers, and then they want to start construction in the fourth quarter, so September, October of this year and we’ll have the sewers ready, hopefully, by then,” Jenson added.