After years

of negotiations and discussions, the city of Senoia is

getting ready to be the proud owner of a wastewater

treatment plant.

City

officials confirmed this week that next Tuesday is the

closing day for the purchase of the Southern Mills Inc.

wastewater treatment plant on Andrews Parkway for

$750,000.

The

purchase of the treatment plant allows the city to

continue with its plan of having a municipal sewerage

system. The city has already started digging lines to

provide sewerage for the town's low-income residents in

the first phase of the project.

The city

will then focus on providing sewerage to the town's

subdivisions and the businesses on Main Street.

The final

piece in the puzzle occurred last week when Winpak Films

agreed to swap small parcels of property with the city to

clear up property lines for the wastewater plant.

Early this

year, the town discovered that Winpak had an easement on

its property which allowed the treatment plant's force

main to run through it.

After

negotiations, Winpak agreed to pay up to $25,000 to move

the force main, and the city and Winpak swapped small

parcels of property to clear the property lines. The city

is also allowing Winpak to use a seven-tenths of an acre

parcel on the city's property with the provision that no

habitable structures are built on the property and it

doesn't interfere with any city buffers.