AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Augusta Commission committee on Tuesday sent three spending requests to the full commission for a final vote next week: $79,020 for a waterpark study, $379,795.19 to pay a parks consultant and $458,901 for equipment that tests water meters. The committee also took up three items from its legal session. The committee sent the waterpark study forward without discussion. The contract would go to CPL Architects, Engineers and Landscape Architects, D.P.C., and would allow the mayor to sign the paperwork. The study would look at whether a waterpark in Augusta makes financial and practical sense. It would examine possible locations, public demand, construction and operating costs, and whether a waterpark could earn enough money to pay for itself. The consultant also would collect public input through surveys, focus groups and community meetings before presenting findings to commissioners. The study would take about six months. It would be paid for with SPLOST 8, the city’s voter-approved sales tax program. Voters approved $5 million in seed money for a South Augusta waterpark in 2021. A provision in the draft of the city’s zoning rewrite could reduce the revenue the city is budgeting for. Five years later, the project has no confirmed location or construction timeline. The vote does not approve building a waterpark. The study would help commissioners decide whether to pursue the project and what it could look like. Three motions came out of Tuesday’s…
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