ROAD WORK AHEAD: Construction on Indian Road, Tahlequah roundabout near completion

Tahlequah Daily Press By Skyler Hammons August 3, 2023

After months of work, two area construction projects are nearing completion.

District 3 County Commissioner Clif Hall said Indian Road will officially be re-opened for use Monday, Aug. 7 at 7 a.m. Hall said the four-site project, which received help from Cherokee and Sequoyah Counties and the Cherokee Nation Department of Transportation, wasn’t expected to be completed until Oct. 1, 2023 but ran ahead of schedule.

On May 5, 2022, the area received about 11 inches of rain over a short time period, causing two complete washouts and substantial damage at two other sites on Indian Road. Two of these sites were located in Cherokee County, while the others were in Sequoyah County. The rebuilds to cost about $3 million.

“[My site] was 92-feet wide and 28-feet deep. There [wasn’t any] road, earth, or anything. That was Site B,” said Hall. “The one in Sequoyah County, which was Site A, was about 45- to 55-feet deep and about 50-feet wide all the way the road. It was all completely gone.”

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