Tyrone's town leaders last week agreed to study the feasibility of entering into an agreement with the city of Fairburn to provide sewerage to two of the town's proposed large-scale developments.

Tyrone's northern boundary lies within two miles of the south Fulton County city's southern limit along Ga. Highway 74.

The town was recently rebuffed by the Fayette County Board of Education in Tyrone's efforts to purchase the school system's wastewater treatment plant at Sandy Creek High School. With the time clock ticking on a large office park development proposed by Richard Bowers on Hwy. 74, the town is considering different options to provide sewerage capacity.

The town also needs sewerage for the more than 200-home John Wieland development and town manager Barry Amos said Fairburn officials contacted Tyrone about the feasibility of joining their project.

Fairburn's leaders are looking at constructing a wastewater treatment plant that would be connected to a potable water treatment plant that would be large enough to sell some of the capacity to Tyrone.

Amos estimated the Bowers and Wieland projects would need 250,000 gallons of sewerage capacity a day and said all the costs of the project would be shouldered by the developers.

"There will be no cost to the town," he said.

Fairburn officials have already contacted the Georgia Environmental Protection Division and believe the plant could be built within 24 months.

Town council members were very enthusiastic about the project and Councilman Paul Letourneau called it "the best of both worlds" since the town would be able to provide sewerage without having to pay any of the construction costs.

Town attorney John Mrosek said the best way to handle the negotiations would be to send a letter of intent to Fairburn's leaders and spell out exactly what the town would be seeking so everybody understood the scope of the discussion.