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Roswell Breaks Ground on New Groundwater Well Development Project
City leaders, staff and council met Tuesday to break ground on a groundwater well site off Willeo Road.
Roswell Water Utility is currently trying to improve and expand its ability to provide a sustainable water supply to local customers, says city staff. The city officially broke ground at a new groundwater well site off Willeo Road on Tuesday, March 6, making Roswell - in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - one of the first metro area water suppliers to follow through on a state request to tap into water resources other than the Chattahoochee or Big Creek. The well will add approximately 360,000 gallons of water per day to Roswell’s water supply, according to the city. The project will construct two water lines: one from the groundwater well to the water treatment building near the intersection of Highway 120 and Willeo Road…
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Lee Fleck
9:03 pm on Friday, March 9, 2012
According to the Army Corp of Engineers, in their "DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT GROUNDWATER WELL AND TREATMENT FACILITY PROJECT" provided on behalf of the City of Roswell, the following excerpt related to the prospects of developing well water production to augment the Dobbs street plant it states; Section 6.13.1. The proposed project would withdraw an estimated 0.17 MGD (170,000 gallons per … more ›