The two famous tanks that proclaimed "Success Lives Here" and "Gwinnett Is Great," a pumping station and a radio tower share a landlocked site adjacent to I-85. Together the tanks once held two million gallons of water and helped pressurize water mains in the area as well as provide water for times of high consumption. But upgrades to the Norcross Pump Station and the installation of a new 24-inch main connecting the water distribution system on both sides of the railroad through the city of Norcross negated the useful function of these tanks.

In March 2010, the Board of Commissioners approved a $149,000 contract with Tristar of America, Inc., to demolish the Goshen Springs tanks along with several other tanks and pump stations.

Officials expect to save about $100,000 in annual operating costs and about the same in annual capital costs on all the structures combined, meaning the County would recoup the dismantling cost in less than a year.

The material from the tanks will not go to waste. According to Lynn Smarr with the County's Water Resources department, the contractor will cut the tanks into small pieces that will be loaded and taken to a scrap metal yard where they will likely be shredded and then shipped to a smelting facility to be melted for recycling.

Progress on the demolition can be followed at www.constructioncam.com/tristar/index.htm.