Royston’s gas pressure project still lacks a documented finish line

Royston has not publicly documented a new milestone for its 2025 Pressure Improvement Project, despite earlier city operations reports placing the gas-pipeline work near completion. As of Aug. 27, recent council materials reviewed for February, May and June do not identify a project-specific completion, testing result, approval or other action for the work extending from Franklin Springs north along Highway 145.

That absence matters because the project involves new natural-gas pipeline work, including river bores and pressure testing. Customers and residents do not yet have a city record saying whether the work passed its required testing, was closed out or reached completion; without that update, the apparent final status of a project intended to improve gas pressure remains unclear.

The city’s earlier operational updates suggested steady progress. A January 2026 report described the project as roughly 60% complete and on schedule. By May, the city reported it was about 90% complete: both river bores had been finished, and the contractor was conducting required pressure testing on the second half of the new pipeline from Franklin Springs north to the end of the project. Later records included here, however, do not carry that account forward to a documented result.

For residents served by the Natural Gas Department, the central question is whether the new line has completed the testing needed to move from construction toward service. City officials and the contractor were previously described as advancing the work and conducting pressure tests, but the later materials do not attribute a new project update to either. The June operations report instead addressed police staffing and vacancies, not the gas project.

The completed acts reported earlier are limited to the two river bores and the work already underway on the pipeline. Pressure testing was reported in progress, not reported complete. A February agenda fragment and a May 12 minutes fragment are too incomplete to establish any gas-project decision or outcome, and the June 9 report supplies no utility status. The city record therefore does not verify that the project has been completed or that testing has succeeded.

The next meaningful public step would be a Royston council-minutes entry or operations report that specifically states the pressure-testing results, project closeout, completion or a related governing-body action. Until such a record appears, it remains undecided in the public record whether the work has cleared its final testing and reached a documented finish.