Friday, August 24,
2001
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Williams floats trial balloon over plant site By JOHN
THOMPSON Curious residents in South Fulton and Fayette counties peeked out their windows Tuesday to discover a giant orange balloon hovering overhead. The balloon is part of Williams Company's visual impact study to show the height that smoke stacks would be on a proposed power plant it wants to build on Peters Road in South Fulton County. Williams spokesman Paula Hall-Collins said residents were on hand to watch company officials place the balloon at its height of 210 ft. "Actually, the balloon was about 10 feet higher than the stacks will be," she said. The company took pictures of the balloon from several different vantage points and will be able to present a virtual reality tour of the site in two weeks when the pictures are processed. Hall-Collins said the company also will have still pictures available for residents to view. In the interim, she said Williams is trying to get answers that residents want on environmental and air quality issues. "We're not trying to hide anything," she said. Once the answers are gathered, she said the company will stage several more public meetings to present the answer and get more questions. The zoning application to rezone the property from residential to industrial is slated to be heard before the Fulton County Board of Commissioners in early 2002.
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