Forsyth County has announced the completion of its Shakerag Water Reclamation Facility and invites the public to an open house of the $38.5 million plant at 545 Kemp Road from 3 to 6 p.m. on July 29.
The facility, Forsyth’s seventh water reclamation plant, “is unique in that it is the first of the county’s plants that is returning water to the Chattahoochee River,” said Tim Perkins, the county’s director of water and sewer.
The Shakerag plant occupies about 12 acres of a 287-acre site; most of the land is undisturbed buffer. Since 2004, more than 180 acres have been used as a land application system for treated wastewater from the Fowler and James Creek reclamation facilities. Also, the South Forsyth Soccer Complex opened on the site in 2003.
CH2M Hill was project engineer, and PC Construction Co., the contractor. The project was funded primarily through sewer tap fees.
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