Friday, January 9, 2004
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Friday, January 9, 2004 |
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County landmark may stay in place By JOHN THOMPSON Public outcry over removing the golf ball water tower near Canongate Golf Course may keep the giant ball in the sky. During Tuesday morning’s Coweta County Commission meeting, Commissioner Larry DeMoss said he had already fielded several phone calls about the dismantling of the water tower and said he didn’t know about the proposal until he read about it in a local paper. The county has recently built a one-million-gallon storage tank near the site, and is trying to determine the feasibility of the upkeep of the familiar landmark along Interstate 85. “If we still wanted to use it, we’d have a lot of painting to do,” said county administrator Theron Gay, who caught some grief from the commissioners for not alerting them about the issue. Chairman Vernon “Mutt” Hunter said he was in favor of keeping the structure intact. “We’re not going to plow that field for corn,” he said. The commission instructed the staff to get with the owners of the golf course and see if a solution could be worked out to keep the ball in place.
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