The Fayette

County Water System is expected to open bids Tuesday, Feb. 11, for the

dredging of silt from Lake Peachtree.

The system

is taking bids from contractors that allow those companies to specify

exactly how the work will be done. But if it's necessary, a staging area

has been secured at Drake Field for equipment that might be used for the

project.

The county

water system uses Lake Peachtree as a reservoir and is required to remove

silt from the lake bottom periodically.

The project

may involve a large number of trucks carrying out the silt and so the

water system has agreed to pave an access road to Drake Field off a curb

cut to Ga. Highway 54 to allow for a separate truck entrance. That way,

the truck traffic won't mix with the other pedestrian traffic through

the main entrance to City Hall and the city library.

Estimates call

for approximately 22,000 cubic yards of sediment to be removed from the

lake, which is owned by Peachtree City.

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