Apalachee River Intake Site In Morgan County Still Under Review

Despite objections from the Morgan County Board of Commissioners, the Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir Management Board and the Walton County Water and Sewer Authority are still considering an intake facility on the Apalachee River in Morgan County.

Kevin Little, vice-chair of the Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir Management Board, made that announcement Friday at the end of a called meeting of the Management Board and the Water Authority.

The Morgan County site “is still under consideration,” he said.

About 30 people attended the meeting, held in the historic Walton County Courthouse in Monroe.

Those who spoke challenged plans to go forward with building an intake facility on the Apalachee River in Morgan County to transfer water–at some point in the future–from the Apalachee to Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir in southeastern Walton County.

For more on this story, with a video of the called meeting, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Jimmy Parker, left, Kevin Little.