MEDIA ADVISORY

Mayor hosts Governor Sonny Perdue

 for Nancy Creek Tunnel Tour

WHO:	Mayor Shirley Franklin Governor Sonny Perdue Paul Burks, Ga. Emergency Facilities Agency (GEFA) Lee Thomas, GEFA Oversight Committee Dept of Watershed Management, Commissioner Rob Hunter
WHAT:	Mayor Franklin and DWM Commissioner Hunter will lead Governor Sonny Perdue and state officials on a tour of the Nancy Creek Tunnel, one of the key elements in the City’s plan to overhaul its aging wastewater infrastructure. Accompanying the Governor will be Paul Burks of GEFA and Lee Thomas, Chair of the GEFA Oversight Committee
WHEN:	Friday, August 27, 2004 Press Availability at 3:15 pm, at Tunnel site Tour descent at 3:30 pm
WHERE:	R. M. Clayton Reclamation Center, 2440 Bolton Rd From downtown, take I-75 North to Moores Mill Road exit. Turn right and proceed to dead end at Bolton Rd. Turn right onto Bolton Road. The R. M. Clayton WRC Plant is on the right at 2440 Bolton Rd.
VISUALS:	Photo Ops Available of Descent into Tunnel at approximately 3:30pm & Emergence from Tunnel at approximately 5:30 pm. City Cable 26 will be the pool video camera down in the Tunnel. Tour footage will be made available to television media afterwards
PRESS:	The Mayor and Governor will be available for interviews above ground immediately before the  tour
CONTACTS:	Tony Gomez 404.575.7395 tgomez@atlantaga.gov Janet Ward, Public Information Manager 404.787.4812 jward@atlantaga.gov

POOL VIDEO ARRANGEMENTS

Media who would like a dub of the tunnel tour pool video should bring appropriate equipment to make dubs at the tour site immediately after the tour is completed at approximately 5:30pm. Because the tour extends beyond normal business hours, dubs will not be available for pick-up at the Mayor's Office of Communications until Monday August 30, 2004.

City Cable 26 will shoot pool video as planned.

For more information about the programs and services of the City of
Atlanta watch City Channel 26.