The City Council

of Peachtree City will consider submitting a plan explaining how it will

improve water quality in its stormwater discharge.

The plan will

be discussed at council's regular meeting Thursday night.

If approved,

the plan would be submitted to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division

for approval. The plan encompasses six areas:

Public education

and outreach.

Public involvement

and participation.

Illicit discharge

detection and elimination.

Construction

site stormwater runoff control.

Post-construction

stormwater management.

Pollution

prevention/good housekeeping.

The plan must

be fully implemented by March 2008, but there will be milestones and deadlines

listed for each facet of the plan, according to City Engineer Troy Besseche.

Besseche and the city's stormwater consulting firm, Integrated Science

and Engineering, have compiled the plan.

While the costs

at the outset likely will range from $50,000 to $75,000, the maintenance

elements of the program will cost substantially more, Besseche said in

a memo to council. Those costs should be better defined by next year,

he added.

The city's

stormwater plans will also be discussed with council as a topic during

the council's annual retreat, which is set to begin March 7.