Citing shoddy work that may take months and more taxpayer dollars to fix, DeKalb County shut down work Friday on the first major project of its $1.35 billion water/sewer overhaul.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution began asking questions about the $7.7 million excavating contract with Desmear Systems earlier this week, after learning the Tucker company had first struggled to secure a performance bond, then later provided a bond that turned out to be fraudulent. Lack of a bond would mean the county could have difficulty recovering any money it lost on the project.
Despite those problems, DeKalb gave Desmear the go-ahead in July 2012 to blast away granite and prepare land next to the Snapfinger wastewater treatment plant in south DeKalb for a $250 million expansion. The work is designed to help DeKalb plan for future growth and serve any home or business south of Decatur that flushes a toilet.
But problems ran far deeper than how the contract was awarded, according to county inspection records and meeting notes obtained exclusively by the AJC.
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