Several roads or lanes will be closed at various times in Columbia County starting Saturday and continuing into next week.

The section of Blue Ridge Drive between Evans to Locks Road and Fairfield Way will be closed 9-10 a.m. Saturday to accommodate competitors in the Lakeside High School Panthers 5K Run. No entry onto Blue Ridge Drive will be allowed from Evans to Locks Road. Northbound traffic on Blue Ridge Drive will be diverted onto Fairfield Way.

During the closure, access to and exit from Blue Ridge Commons, Blue Ridge Crossing, Lakeside Landing, Lakeside Town Homes and Wisteria Place will be prohibited, according to an e-mail from Columbia County Emergency and Operations Director Pam Tucker.

Iron & Steel Drive in Martinez will be closed starting Sunday morning until Wednesday afternoon while CSX Railroad performs maintenance on a railway.

Lanes of Furys Ferry Road will be closed from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesday for landscaping work in the grass medians of the road. A lane of Furys Ferry road between The Pass and Boller Road will be closed as well as a 1,700-foot stretch of lane on the highway near the border of Richmond and Columbia counties. Motorists will need to merge to the right.

More landscaping work on Furys Ferry Road between Evans to Locks Road and Inverness Way will force a lane closure from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Wednesday. Again, motorists will need to merge to the right, Mrs. Tucker said.

Reach Donnie Fetter at (706) 863-6165 or donnie.fetter@augustachronicle.com