By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@thecitizennews.com

Tyrone moved one step closer to providing sewerage for two huge developments last week.

Town manager Barry Amos confirmed Fulton County has reached an agreement with Fairburn that would allow Fairburn to provide Tyrone 250,000 gallons a day of sewerage capacity.

Tyrone's northern boundary lies within two miles of the south Fulton County city's southern limit along Ga. Highway 74.

With that amount of capacity, Tyrone could offer sewerage to the 200-home John Wieland PUD and the proposed 750,000-square-foot Richard Bowers office park on Ga. Highway 74.

Amos said that Fairburn, through Fulton County, could go ahead and provide the service now, instead of waiting for a new treatment plant to be built.

Fairburn's leaders are looking at constructing a wastewater treatment plant that would be connected to a potable water treatment plant large enough to sell some of the capacity to Tyrone.

Amos estimated the Bowers and Wieland projects would need 250,000 gallons of sewerage capacity a day and said all the costs of the project would be shouldered by the developers.

Negotiations between Fairburn and Tyrone are moving along quickly and Amos believes an agreement will be reached soon.