A new administration

building for the Peachtree City Water and Sewerage Authority will put

its office, maintenance and laboratory operations all under one roof.

The building,

under construction on Ga. Highway 74 South at the Rockaway sewage treatment

facility, will replace the hodgepodge of small buildings WASA currently

uses at the aging and soon-to-be mothballed Flat Creek treatment plant.

The project is expected to be ready for move-in around mid-July, said

WASA General Manager Larry Turner.

The new administrative

building features a larger laboratory, which will allow the authority

to handle water quality testing for the city in the future, Turner said.

The lab has a separate entrance door so samples can be brought in without

disturbing other operations; the public will enter the building through

a lobby that's adjacent to the parking area.

The new facility

also has an indoor maintenance area where key large equipment such as

a vacuum truck can be stored in cold weather to avoid problems, Turner

added. Next to the maintenance area is an outdoor high pressure water

system which is necessary for cleaning parts from the various pump stations

that keep the city's sewage flowing.

Inside the

administrative section are a board room where WASA will be able to meet

instead of using City Hall, a break room for employees that will also

be used for meetings, a room with several workstations so field employees

will have a place to make calls and perform other tasks as necessary,

a kitchen and locker rooms.

The price tag

is $1.2 million, which the authority is paying for out of its capital

equipment budget. That money will be repaid to the capital equipment fund

with proceeds from the recent bond sales that will pay for WASA to expand

its capacity to 6 million gallons a day, Turner said.

It was necessary

to build the administrative building before the expansion project because

officials didn't want to have contractors working on the building and

the expansion of the Rockaway plant at the same time, Turner said.

That expansion

will double the capacity of the Rockaway plant, where the building is

located, to 4 million gallons a day, making it the largest plant in the

system.

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