The Peachtree

City Water and Sewage Authority will discuss its annual budget at its

regular meeting Tuesday evening.

Although the

meeting starts at 6:30 p.m., the authority will hold a workshop beginning

at 5:30 p.m. to discuss the process of issuing bonds to pay for the upcoming

$17.5 million sewer system expansion.

The $4.98 million

budget represents a 1.81 percent increase from the current budget. That

number might shrink as low as 1.5 percent as the budget is adjusted before

the meeting, said WASA General Manager Larry Turner.

The authority

discussed the budget at its meeting last month, with the main issue being

a plan for increased longevity bonuses for WASA employees.

The workshop

prior to the meeting will focus on the bond issue process for the expansion,

which will double the capacity of the Rockaway treatment plant to 4 million

gallons a day and shut down the aging Flat Creek treatment plant.

The expansion

plans also call for a filtering system at the Line Creek plant to specially

treat sewage so it can be piped to the Planterra Ridge Golf Course for

irrigation purposes instead of being discharged into Line Creek. WASA

also plans to build a new administration building which would replace

the current maintenance facilities and portable administration building.

Once the project

is completed, he city will end up with a treatment capacity of 6 million

gallons a day, compared with the 3.9 million gallons a day it currently

averages.

A.G. Edwards

and Sons has been selected as the banking firm for the bond issue and

Kilpatrick Stockton was chosen to represent WASA as its bond attorney.

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