In a brief called meeting Tuesday night, the Barrow County Water and Sewage Authority (WSA) agreed to front funds to Barrow County so that the county’s number one pump station and pipeline project can get under way. The authority also decided on the process that will result with one of four firms winning the bid to transform the former Holsenbeck Fire Station into a new home base for the Barrow County Water Department’s maintenance shop and offices.
Mark Whiddon, director of Wastewater Services for Barrow County asked members of the WSA to approve “pre-funding” in the amount of “at least $150,000 so that work on the county’s SR 53/316 pump station and pipeline project can begin while final approval of an already applied for Georgia Environmental Finance Authority loan is obtained. The pipeline will service the county’s industrial development property at the intersection of SR 53 and Hwy. 316 and is part of some $4-million in projects the GEFA loan will fund.
Saying that the county’s application is “in its final form” and contract release is expected soon, Whiddon told the authority the BOC’s plan is to repay the authority with the first draw on the loan, which is expected “as early as the end of September.”
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