The city plans to redo a creek near Agawela Drive, converting a quarter-mile section from an ugly gully to an attractive meandering stream.
Bill Payne, city engineer, said it is not a project the city would normally have taken on. But he said the city proposed the work as a substitute for paying the federal government $800,000 for sewer overflow penalties.
He said the site is near where the creek enters South Chickamauga Creek. The location is near Shallowford Road and Wilcox Boulevard.
Curl Construction and Excavating LLC of Wartrace, Tn., got the $899,621 contract.
The work is set to begin soon and will be mostly completed this summer. Some landscaping will be planted in the fall.