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Published Friday, July 03, 2009 in Local

30 contractors vying for sewer line

By Sarah Fay Campbell

The Times-Herald

Approximately 30 contractors have requested the plans that they need to bid on the project to construct a sewer line from Thomas Crossroads to tie in to existing Coweta County sewer lines near White Oak.

"I think there are going to be some hungry contractors out there," Ellis Cadenhead, general manager of the Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority, told members of the authority at the July meeting Thursday.

The bid deadline is July 7, Cadenhead said. The line will be financed by PEG, a group of banks that now owns property in the Thomas Grace Annex. The authority has also entered into agreements with Arbor Springs and Fischer Crossings. Lines from those properties will tie in with the PEG line.

In other meeting business:

* Authority crews have already begun doing some cleanup work on the authority's future headquarters. The authority is renovating the former Plymart building on Corinth Road. Architect Kip Oldham presented preliminary site plans for an addition to that building. The new addition will include the boardroom, administrative offices, a teller window, and a drive-through payment window. Hopes are to have the new office ready by January.

* Brent Scarborough and Company will be the sole contractor for the authority's on-going polybutylene replacement project.

The authority is systematically replacing faulty polybutylene pipe throughout the county. A large portion of the pipe has already been replaced. The blue pipe, used in the 1980s and '90s, has failed all over the nation, and is often the culprit in water leaks.

There were five bids submitted, Cadenhead said, and Scarborough's bid was approximately $100 lower for each replacement. There is no actual contract, Cadenhead said. Instead, there is an agreement that Scarborough will provide the needed work for one year.

Authority Chairman Neal Shepard said that the large number of bidders for the sewer line, the great price the authority got on the Plymart property, and the low price from Scarborough reflects the current economy and is "an unparalleled opportunity to save money for our rate payers."

* The authority approved an agreement with the Blackburn family regarding easements for the construction of sewer lines to serve the proposed new Piedmont Newnan Hospital site on Poplar Road.

When the county got initial easements for the sewer treatment plant, the Blackburn property was allocated future use of 150,000 gallons per day of capacity, said Jerry Ann Conner, authority attorney.

When the authority needed additional easements for the outfall line from the hospital to the plant, it was agreed that the property will also be credited 50 taps, Conner said.

"We need this agreement... so we can go ahead and start cutting the timber," Cadenhead said. "We've already awarded the bid."

* The authority accepted the transfer of several "fixed assets," such as water lines, from Coweta County. These assets were inadvertently left out of an earlier transfer.

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