About 750 miles of Tallapoosa County roads are paved but keeping them up is not easy.
Thanks to Rebuild Alabama funding more maintenance to the county’s roads can be done. Tallapoosa County engineer David Moore said the additional $900,000 in funding through Rebuild Alabama is great but Tallapoosa County has gotten great use of other gas tax funding and more.
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