When upgrading the Highland Avenue Water Treatment Plant in 2009, the City of Augusta, Georgia, faced an obstacle.A community of miniature buildings from the 1940s, called Mockingbird Hill Village, stood in the way of expansion. The “village” consisted of a Southern mansion, a church with a stained-glass window, a log cabin, a grist mill with a waterwheel and various other miniature buildings constructed by firefighters. As part of the $65 million water plant upgrade, a new filter building would occupy the hillside site.Working it out“Citizens were not happy,” says Allen Saxon, assistant director of facility operations. “People were more upset
