By DAVE HAMRICK
dhamrick@thecitizennews.com

“No sewer, no way,” was the message Fayette County commissioners gave Larry Woolard when he asked to have his county-line property sewered by Clayton County.

But commissioners hinted that if Woolard goes through proper channels, they might consider allowing Clayton to provide water to the property.

“I have no problem with water,” said Commissioner Glen Gosa, chairman of the county Water Committee. “But, he would have to run it back through the Water Committee,” said county manager Billy Beckett.

Woolard said he wants to develop his commercial property at Ga. Highway 138 and Ga. Highway 314, and Fayette provides neither water nor sewer in that area.

“It has been a long-standing policy not to allow sewer service from another county to be extended over into Fayette,” said commission Chairman Harold Bost. Commissioners fear that additional customers will want to hook on, adding to the density of development in general. The one exception has been Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School.