Friday, December 21, 2001
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Friday, December 21, 2001 |
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Drainage problem at Falcon Field is $20,000 fix By JOHN
MUNFORD
To correct an engineering mistake made years ago, the Peachtree City Airport Authority may end up spending over $20,000 out of its reserve account. The funds will be used to replace two pipes that currently drain stormwater runoff onto adjacent property, which is currently owned by Jet Limo, LLC. Jet Limo officials plan to build an office-warehouse building with a hangar facility. One of the pipes that drains onto the Jet Limo property was built back in 1996 when the airport terminal was constructed, said Airport Manager Jim Savage. It was necessary because of a mistake in the elevations used when the terminal building was designed, Savage said. The error was not discovered until construction on the terminal building was well underway, Savage added. He recalled that the error may have been found after the concrete slab was poured for the building's foundation. "The pipe was not as low as they thought it was," Savage said. The airport terminal building was originally built by Group VI Corporation, which is headquartered in Peachtree City. The second pipe that diverts water runoff to the Jet Limo property was installed to direct runoff to the Jet Limo property back in 1993, Savage added. Until the past year, the Jet Limo property was owned by Peachtree City Holdings LLC, which had no problem with drainage flowing onto the adjacent property, Savage said. But now that the property has been sold, Jet Limo officials wanted compensation from the authority for allowing the drainage to flow onto their property. So the authority voted to build a new drainage pipe to keep the stormwater flow back onto airport property. The pipes were built with full knowledge the situation would have to be remedied in the future, Savage noted. "It's just that the future is now," Savage said. Replacing the pipes gives the authority room to expand in the future, though another possible solution would not have allowed for expansion, Savage said. Jet Limo official Mike Rossetti told the authority at its meeting last week that if airport officials wanted to continue using its property for drainage, the company expected some type of compensation.
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