Senoia residents

turned out in force Tuesday at a public hearing to get a preview of the

city's sewer system that will be up and running in the next three years.

Senoia Mayor

Joan Trammell explained that residents will have plenty of notice for

when they will be forced to hook up to the system.

Residents will

be notified prior to the sewer line running down their streets of the

impending hook-up and City Administrator Leonard Thompson plans to give

the residents a lengthy period to plan for it.

While residents

will not pay a tap fee if they hook up in the first 90 days, they will

still be responsible for running pipe from the city's tap in the right

of way to their houses.

Thompson plans

to have three or four contractors lined up to run the pipe and residents

can choose the one they want to run the line.

The residents

also will be responsible for filling in their septic tanks, because environmental

laws do not allow the tanks to remain active after sewer is run to the

house.

All the council

members emphasized that residents would need plenty of time to plan for

this expense.