After 20 years, Senoia sewage system is a go

By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@thecitizennews.com

After nearly 20 years of debate, planning and discussion, the city of Senoia’s sewerage system became a reality Wednesday morning.
Mayor Joan Trammell presided over hooking up the first connection in the city’s housing project on Ray Street.

Trammell thanked everybody for making the project happen, with a special kudos to Southern Mills Co., who sold the city its land application system.
The purchase of the treatment plant allowed the city to continue with its plan of having a municipal sewerage system. The first phase is providing sewerage for the town’s low-income residents.

The city will then focus on providing sewerage to the town’s subdivisions and the businesses on Main Street.

City Administrator Leonard Thompson said 52 residents will be hooked up during the first phase, which should take three weeks to connect.
The second phase will probably occur within a year and encompass the city’s historic business district, along with the rest of the city.

During the town’s initial installation of the service, residents will be allowed to hook up for free. But since many of the older homes have their current septic systems in the backyards and the new sewer lines are running along the street, there will still be a cost to make the connection.
Trammell said the city is looking at prorating any fee onto a resident’s sewer bill.