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Cumming postpones vote on bid for wastewater facility

Utilities director asked for delay until next month

Jon Heard, director of Cumming Utilities, looks over wastewater as it is cleaned at the Lanier Beach South treatment facility. The Cumming City Council postponed a vote for a bid to build a new pump station that would replace the facility, which dates to the 1970s. - photo by CRYSTAL LEDFORD

0720Water2 — Jon Heard, director of Cumming Utilities, looks over wastewater as it is cleaned at the Lanier Beach South treatment facility. The Cumming City Council postponed a vote for a bid to build a new pump station that would replace the facility, which dates to the 1970s. - photo by CRYSTAL LEDFORD

Cumming officials postponed voting on a bid for construction of a new wastewater facility near Lake Lanier during their monthly meeting Tuesday night.

The project will replace the Lanier Beach South wastewater facility, which is on Lanier Beach South Road off Buford Dam Road in eastern Forsyth County.

Jon Heard, utilities director, asked officials that they postpone the vote until next month due to "engineers still reviewing some details of the project."

They're now scheduled to approve the bid during their Aug. 16 meeting.

Built in the early 1970s, the existing facility was designed to last about 20 years, Heard said.

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