Audience Not Happy With Analysis Of Alternatives To Pipeline Down Oconee County’s Calls Creek

Oconee County Utility Department Director Wayne Haynie saved the slide that most of the 70 people in the audience at the Water Resources Town Hall Meeting last (Wednesday) night came to see until near the end of his nearly hour-long presentation.

It was quite clear once he showed the slide that most of the people in the audience didn’t like the message it contained.

The slide, according to Haynie and his consultants, showed that running a sewer line down Calls Creek is the most cost effective way of getting treated water from the county's Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant on the edge of Watkinsville to the Middle Oconee River.

People in the audience disputed the calculations and the assumptions that lie behind them, arguing that the disruption to the neighborhood and the creek itself was more important than any identified cost savings.

For details on this story and the complete video of the meeting, go to this post on Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Key Slide In Presentation