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City's water plant work moving forward
Plans continue to move along with Thomasville's efforts to build a water treatment plant. Mayor Sheldon Day said that geological testing and other survey requirements are about two weeks from completion at the proposed site for a water intake along the Alabama River. Permitting has already been completed for the water plant site itself and the city is completing its application to the USDA for a loan/grant package to help pay for construction of the project. Day said the city has to resubmit and rework its original application since Weyerhaeuser pulled out of an agreement for the city to use excess capacity at the company's intake along the Alabama River. Construction is expected to begin sometime in March or April of 2007. The estimated time of completion of the project is 12-14 months. The plant will not be open in time for the Louisiana-Pacific plant's start of operations, now estimated to be in October of 2007. The water plant should come online by May or June of 2008. "Our calculations show that even this past summer, we could've handled L-P," Day said. "But our concern is continued development in Thomasville. People laughed when we said there would 100 new housing units in Thomasville in the next couple of years, but we're about to have more than 30 in downtown Thomasville alone, and about 50 more are planned or under construction in the city right now."
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