To correct

an engineering mistake made years ago, the Peachtree City Airport Authority

may end up spending over $20,000 out of its reserve account.

The funds will

be used to replace two pipes that currently drain stormwater runoff onto

adjacent property, which is currently owned by Jet Limo, LLC.

Jet Limo officials

plan to build an office-warehouse building with a hangar facility.

One of the

pipes that drains onto the Jet Limo property was built back in 1996 when

the airport terminal was constructed, said Airport Manager Jim Savage.

It was necessary because of a mistake in the elevations used when the

terminal building was designed, Savage said.

The error was

not discovered until construction on the terminal building was well underway,

Savage added. He recalled that the error may have been found after the

concrete slab was poured for the building's foundation.

"The pipe

was not as low as they thought it was," Savage said.

The airport

terminal building was originally built by Group VI Corporation, which

is headquartered in Peachtree City.

The second

pipe that diverts water runoff to the Jet Limo property was installed

to direct runoff to the Jet Limo property back in 1993, Savage added.

Until the past

year, the Jet Limo property was owned by Peachtree City Holdings LLC,

which had no problem with drainage flowing onto the adjacent property,

Savage said.

But now that

the property has been sold, Jet Limo officials wanted compensation from

the authority for allowing the drainage to flow onto their property. So

the authority voted to build a new drainage pipe to keep the stormwater

flow back onto airport property.

The pipes were

built with full knowledge the situation would have to be remedied in the

future, Savage noted.

"It's

just that the future is now," Savage said.

Replacing the

pipes gives the authority room to expand in the future, though another

possible solution would not have allowed for expansion, Savage said.

Jet Limo official

Mike Rossetti told the authority at its meeting last week that if airport

officials wanted to continue using its property for drainage, the company

expected some type of compensation.

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