The Peachtree

City Water and Sewer Authority will hold a public meeting Tuesday, July

22, to explain the environmental affects possible during the upcoming

expansion of the sewer system.

The meeting

will be held at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall in council chambers.

The environmental

information document compiled by a WASA consultant studied the potential

environmental impacts of the expansion in 28 categories. Minor environmental

impacts are expected in 15 of those categories while no impacts are expected

for the other 13 categories, the report concluded.

The study considered

environments such as wetlands, protected species, forest land, stormwater

and others which could be disturbed by the expansion. Each affected category

was rated on the projected size of impact, either minor, median, major

or unknown.

Among the categories

expected to have minor affects are wetlands, water supply, stormwater,

solid wastes, protected species and aquatic life.

WASA General

Manager Larry Turner said the meeting will include a brief overview of

the expansion plans. The expansion includes:

Expansion

of the Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant from 2 million gallons a day

to 4 million;

Disposing

of specially treated wastewater at golf courses for irrigation purposes;

Shutting down

the Flat Creek treatment plant, but still discharging effluent into the

stream through a pipe system; and

Relocating

WASA's administrative offices from the Flat Creek plant to the Rockaway

Plant.

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