The new administration

building for the Peachtree City Water and Sewerage Authority will be built

from Peachtree City Holdings in the city's industrial park area.

The authority

approved the purchase of 9 acres along Ga. Highway 74 and Rockaway Road

for $260,000, the appraisal value for the property, said WASA General

Manager Larry Turner. The authority also bought 29 acres south of Falcon

Field from Peachtree City Holdings that is adjacent to its Rockaway sewage

treatment facility. That land, which will sell for $218,000, will be used

to build storage ponds necessary for the authority's urban reuse program

that will use specially treated wastewater as irrigation for Planterra

Ridge golf course.

The storage

pond site was actually appraised at $200,000, but that was when it was

thought there was only 12 useable acres on the site; a later survey revealed

that 16 of the site's acres could be used for the project, Turner said.

So although the price paid was higher than the original appraised price,

the authority is getting a good deal on the transaction, Turner added.

Group VI was

the only bidder for constructing the building. The current estimated cost

is $1.246 million, down approximately $110,000 though some changes in

the specifications, Turner told the authority at its meeting Monday night.

WASA member

Ted Taylor said he was concerned about making sure the project stood up

to public scrutiny. He said he wanted an outside firm to review the plans,

which are being developed by Group VI as part of the design-build contract.

Taylor was

the only negative vote against approving the contract with Group VI for

the construction.

Jim Pace of

Group VI said that the company bid out every facet of the construction

to keep costs down.

WASA's current

administration building was originally supposed to be a temporary facility.

It is located at the Flat Creek sewage treatment plant, which will be

shuttered as part of a $15 million project to expand the sewer system.

The authority still plans to keep its permit to discharge treated sewage

water into Flat Creek, with that sewage being pumped in from another facility.