An effort

to stop a large utility marketer from building a plant in

neighboring Heard County appears to be running out of

steam.

Commissioner

Jim McGuffey told the Coweta Board of Commissioners

Tuesday afternoon that it appears there is nothing the

county can do to stop Dynegy from building a 500-megawatt

power station just across the line in Heard County.

But

McGuffey said the news is not all bad.

After

meeting with company officials last week, McGuffey said

the company appears to be willing to work with concerned

Coweta residents.

The company

plans to meet with residents in early April and address

many of their specific concerns. McGuffey said two of his

main concerns were the sound and the smell that could be

generated from the natural gas plant.

But

officials said those two issues are not a problem and

they would be willing to work with Coweta officials to

get the word out on the plant's operations.

McGuffey

said the company is planning not to use the six acres of

the property that spills into Coweta County and has

pledged to plant the area with pines to serve as a

buffer.

He also

said that no construction vehicles would be allowed on

Hawk or Midway roads and the county would monitor the

situation.

If we do

see construction vehicles, we told them that we would put

up barricades and they did not have a problem with that,

he said.

Company

officials were very apologetic for not better informing

Coweta residents, he added, and said he thought the

company would come under the state's guidelines for

developments of regional impact, but found out different.

The state

says we're a metro county and Heard is not, so they did

not have to get our input, he said.

He pledged

to keep the commission up to date on the situation.