Tyrone

moved one step closer to providing sewerage for

two huge developments last week.

Town

manager Barry Amos confirmed Fulton County has

reached an agreement with Fairburn that would

allow Fairburn to provide Tyrone 250,000 gallons

a day of sewerage capacity.

Tyrone's

northern boundary lies within two miles of the

south Fulton County city's southern limit along

Ga. Highway 74.

With

that amount of capacity, Tyrone could offer

sewerage to the 200-home John Wieland PUD and the

proposed 750,000-square-foot Richard Bowers

office park on Ga. Highway 74.

Amos

said that Fairburn, through Fulton County, could

go ahead and provide the service now, instead of

waiting for a new treatment plant to be built.

Fairburn's

leaders are looking at constructing a wastewater

treatment plant that would be connected to a

potable water treatment plant 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.

Negotiations

between Fairburn and Tyrone are moving along

quickly and Amos believes an agreement will be

reached soon.

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