| County prepares
for future, increases raw water capacity
By DAVE HAMRICK
dhamrick@TheCitizenNews.com
Fayette County will spend a
little over a million dollars to save both time and money in the future.
County commissioners have approved Mid-South of Georgia's bid of $1.19
million to upgrade the pumps and lines that will supply raw water to the
South Fayette Water Treatment Plant.
The $12 million plant, under construction on Antioch Road, is expected
to go on-line next May. It will draw water from the county's new Horton
Creek Reservoir, just south of the plant.
Initially, the plant is designed to produce six million gallons of treated
water a day, increasing the county's total treatment capacity to 20 mgd.
But it also is designed to be expanded to nine mgd when future demand
calls for it.
Mid-South of Georgia will put in larger pumps and lines so that when the
plant is expanded, the raw water pumping capacity will already be in place
to supply it.
"Long-term, it saves us money," said water system director Tony
Parrott.
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