Orange Camp Road to get $10 million upgrade

Posted On: June 16, 2020

An approximately 1.3-mile stretch of Orange Camp Road, a well-traveled feeder thoroughfare connecting the south end of DeLand to I-4, is about to get a $10 million upgrade.

On Tuesday, the Volusia County Council awarded a construction contract for the four-laning of Orange Camp Road from just east of Blue Lake Avenue to the Interstate 4 interchange. The project also will include construction of a roundabout where Orange Camp Road intersects with the Martin Luther King Jr. Beltway. The existing traffic light at the intersection will be removed.

The council awarded the $10,077,618.27 contract to P&S Paving, Inc. of Daytona Beach. Included in the contract is about $1.3 million in work to the City of DeLand’s utility lines that are in the path of the widening project. The city will pay those costs as part of a joint agreement with the county to include the utility work in the same contract with P&S Paving. Combining the construction into a single contract is designed to improve the overall efficiency of the road work and eliminate the added inconvenience to the traveling public that could result from the county and city planning separate projects.

The construction is expected to take approximately 18 months to complete.