The ball is

rolling for Peachtree City's planned $17.5 million sewer expansion.

The Water and

Sewer Authority has contracted with Arcadis G&M Inc. for designing

plans for the expansion of the Rockaway waste water treatment plant. Arcadis

will also design the urban reuse facility, which will pump specially-treated

wastewater to the Planterra Ridge golf course to be used for irrigation.

Arcadis will

not design the administrative building, however, said WASA General Manager

Larry Turner. Instead, having a local firm do the design-build process

for the new administration building should save the authority some money,

Turner said.

It will also

speed up construction of the administrative building, Turner added. Construction

is expected to take six months.

"It should

literally be ready by the time the plant expansion starts," Turner

said.

For designing

and overseeing construction of the projects, Arcadis will receive $740,000,

not including additional services which could be rendered that aren't

under the scope of the project, Turner said.

The expansion

of the Rockaway plant will increase its treatment capacity by two million

gallons a day.

The authority

also selected an investment banking firm and bond counsel for the planned

bond issue to fund the expansion projects. A.G. Edwards and Sons was selected

as the banking firm and Kilpatrick Stockton was chosen as the bond attorney.

Both are being

used by the City Council which will propose several bond projects before

voters in November.

The authority's

bond issue, however, does not need to be approved by voters.

The authority

also authorized spending money for the expansion projects from its current

funds which will be reimbursed after the bonds are issued.

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