Curious residents

in South Fulton and Fayette counties peeked out their windows Tuesday

to discover a giant orange balloon hovering overhead.

The balloon

is part of Williams Company's visual impact study to show the height that

smoke stacks would be on a proposed power plant it wants to build on Peters

Road in South Fulton County.

Williams spokesman

Paula Hall-Collins said residents were on hand to watch company officials

place the balloon at its height of 210 ft.

"Actually,

the balloon was about 10 feet higher than the stacks will be," she

said.

The company

took pictures of the balloon from several different vantage points and

will be able to present a virtual reality tour of the site in two weeks

when the pictures are processed.

Hall-Collins

said the company also will have still pictures available for residents

to view. In the interim, she said Williams is trying to get answers that

residents want on environmental and air quality issues.

"We're

not trying to hide anything," she said.

Once the answers

are gathered, she said the company will stage several more public meetings

to present the answer and get more questions.

The zoning

application to rezone the property from residential to industrial is slated

to be heard before the Fulton County Board of Commissioners in early 2002.

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