A Jan. 21 presentation to the Peachtree City Council on the idea of the Peachtree City Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) sell((ing)) sewer capacity to Tyrone ended with the agenda item being continued until additional questions can be answered. The answers to questions by the council will come from WASA.
The question still on the table deals with the potential to sell Tyrone 350,000 per day of sewer capacity out of the 6 million gallon per day total WASA capacity.
Questions from the council requiring an answer dealt with the idea of limiting sewer capacity if approved, the impact of a 200-foot hook-up distance for sewer mains and whether WASA has to hold back a percentage of capacity to meet(((ing))) state and federal requirements.
City Manager John Rorie at a previous meeting said WASA has a 6 million gallon per day capacity and is currently using 3.1 million gallons per day.
WASA Director Stephen Hogan on Jan. 21 provided much of the same information the council had seen at the Jan. 7 meeting and answered a number of questions from council members.
Hogan said the least expensive option would have sewer lines run up Ga. Highway 74, with Tyrone Mayor Eric Dial noting the ((desire)) to have the downtown area near Shamrock Park outfitted with sewer to help with future development.
Hogan said the potential forced-main sewer would be difficult, though possible, to have future developments hook-on.
Tyrone, with a population of 7,000, has 250,000 gallons capacity from Fairburn/Fulton County and currently has 422 customers. That contract expires in 2019. The areas in Tyrone currently on sewer include the Southampton Village Shopping Center, Southampton subdivision, a second John Wieland subdivision on Hwy. 74 North, the new Fayette County fire station at Hwy. 74 and Jenkins Road along with Sandy Creek High, Flat Rock Middle and Burch Elementary, all on Jenkins Road.
Peachtree City today has a population of approximately 34,000. Projections, including the establishment of the West Village area along MacDuff Parkway, will bring the city population to approximately 43,000 at build-out, Rorie said while noting the low expectation of any major annexations in future.
The addition of Wilksmoor Village on the city’s west side will add another 1 million gallons per day to the current 3.1 million. That total of 4.1 million gallons per day, and the addition of 350,000 gallons per day to Tyrone, would result in a total of 4.45 million gallons per day of sewer usage, leaving a remaining capacity surplus of 1.5 million gallons per day.
WASA currently extends sewer outside city limits to Dogwood Church on Hwy. 74, to the Starr’s Mill school complex on the city’s south side, the Shiloah Mobile Home Park on the east side and ((to)) two subdivisions.
