Design Proposals for Painting Downtown Athens Fire Hydrants Now Being Accepted

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

Athens-Clarke County’s Water Conservation Office is accepting submissions of designs for “Fire Up the Hydrants!” — an artistic means of calling attention to the role of the public water system through the painting of fire hydrants.

Under the initiative, 16 fire hydrants in the downtown area will be painted to mark the fact that this is the 80th year the county’s J.G. Beacham Water Treatment Plant has been supplying drinking water.

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