The city of

Senoia will have its sewage squabble settled by March 14.

That's the

word from Mayor Joan Trammell, who briefly addressed the

controversy Tuesday night.

Senoia's

bid to purchase the Southern Mills, Inc. company's sewage

treatment plant for the city sewer system hit a snag in

the last month when an unknown easement appeared.

Last Monday

night, the council haggled over the easement that runs

through neighboring Winpak Film Inc.'s property and

contains the force main from Southern Mills' treatment

plant.

Winpak has

offered to swap the property for a piece of city property

and pay up to $25,000 to move the force main that runs

through its property.

The snag is

that Winpak also wants the city to donate a

seven-tenths-acre tract to the company. The city

maintains that parcel is necessary for future spray field

application uses.

"Our

engineer is still recommending that we don't give them

that property. We have offered another piece,

though," Trammell said Tuesday night.

Trammell

said that part of the original contract called for

Southern Mills to contribute up to $12,000 to move the

main, but Southern Mills' Ken Collins said he couldn't

commit to that.

"We're

just about tapped out. We've spent $5,000 in legal fees

to have this contract drawn up," he said.

If an

agreement cannot be reached between Southern Mills,

Winpak and the city, Trammel said a final option could be

condemning the property.

There's no

written record of the easement, but apparently there was

a verbal agreement between the previous owner of Winpak

and Southern Mills.

Public

works director Leonard Thompson said he would probably

bring a recommendation on the dispute to the City Council

Monday night for its perusal.