To help protect

Lake Kedron's water quality, the Peachtree City Water and Sewerage Authority

is paying for emergency power generators to be installed at four nearby

pump stations.

The stations

rely on power periodically to pump sewage, but when power outages occur,

there's no power, which leaves the opportunity for the sewage to overflow

from the area and perhaps into the lake.

Now, when the

power goes out, WASA crews move a portable generator to use in the area

until power is restored, said WASA General Manager Larry Turner.

But with the

new generators at the pump stations, there will be no need to do that,

Turner said.

"We felt

these were critical locations," Turner said.

The authority

awarded the project to the low bidder, which was Womack Electric Company,

for $198,360.

It will cost

an additional $15,000 to link the pump stations up to the authority's

computer monitoring system, Turner said.

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