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2~ TUESDAY JANUARY 10, 1984 _. From Option 2 of the County's Table presented 12/19/83, it appears that the P.S.A.'s Marrowbone option for the south County is less cost effective than the County's proposed buy-in to the City's plant expansion. However, it is unclear if the P.S.A. pump stations required to deliver the P.S.A. flow to the City's plant from the south would offset the higher Marrow- bone treatment costs. The City and P.S.A. need to provide for the orderly expansion of both existing plants through a new wastewater treatment agreement. The City could find itself expanding its plant unilaterally and then at a later date selling a portion of the capacity expansion at a depressed historical cost. - Also, the diversion of the Jones Creek flow and corresponding buy-in to the existing Upper Smith Plant offers the City relief from excessive flows approximately 6 months sooner than the proposed expansion improvements at the City plant, exclusive of negotiations with the Henry County Public Service Authority. Based on all of the above discussion and the similarity of the unit costs appearing in Tables 1 and 2, it appears that the City should seek to con- tinue negotiations with the Henry County Public Service Authority for the purpose of purchasing a portion of the capacity of the Upper Smith Plant at Koehler. Due to the present volume of flow at the City's plant, nego- tiations should be carried out and concluded without delay. If, however, as a result of these negotiations the buy-in costs increase, the City's share of the projected annual operation and maintenance costs at the Upper Smith Plant is determined to be excessive, or if in general, a mutually acceptable diversion scheme cannot be resolved, unilateral expansion of the City's plant remains a viable alternative. In response to several inquiries, Mr. Crush indicated that the odor-control improvements proposed for the City's treatment plant could be completed in approximately sixteen months (from date authorization is given to prepare plans and specifications) and (that) the cost - of constructing pumping stations and/or force mains or gravity-flow mains to divert prin- cipally industrial flow from the City's Jones Creek Interceptor to the PSA's Koehler (Upper Smith River) treatment plant is estimated to be $386,000.00. Appearing before Council and speaking on behalf of citizens residing in the Forest Park area of the City, in addition to their counsel (Mr. Benjamin R. Gardner, Attorney at Law), were Mr. Frank T. Gravely (of 1610 Mulberry Road) and Mr. Donald G. Hogg (of 1604 Meadow View Lane) who reiterated previously-expressed concerns with--and objections to--the offensive odors which have emanated from the City's treatment plant for the last several years (until