Police to get old pipe

Police to get old

pipe

Peachtree City's

Police Department will benefit from aborted plans to build a Fayette County

reservoir back in the '70s.

Plans to build

Lake McIntosh, which currently are moving forward, were going full tilt

about 25 years ago, and the county Water System bought and stored numerous

lengths of 30-inch pipe associated with the project.

Now those pipes

sit rusting on a piece of property on a dirt road just off TDK Boulevard,

just west of the Planterra Golf Course.

Police Chief

James Murray noticed the old materials and wrote to Water System director

Tony Parrott, saying his officers would like to use the pipe in an obstacle

course they're planning to build to test new applicants.

Murray asked

for four to six of the pipes, but the county Water Committee last week

voted to give the department all of them if they'll just haul them away.

The County

Commission must still approve the request.

Dave Hamrick