Friends of Barber Creek Wants Involvement In County Water Plan

Members of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Barber Creek have decided they want to play a leadership role as Oconee County completes work on its Water and Wastewater Master Plan revision.

The Board earlier this week elected Allan Antley, 1040 Lake Wellbrook Drive in Lake Wellbrook subdivision, as president, and decided to make new efforts to revive its membership base.

A preliminary map released by the county as part of development of its master plan shows a gravity fed sewer line all the way down Barber Creek from just east of U.S. 78 until the creek’s terminus at McNutt Creek on the Clarke and Oconee county line.

At present, the county has pump stations at two places on Barber Creek but no sewer lines along the creek itself, which runs across the entire northern watershed of the county and through many subdivisions.

The Board of Directors of Friends of Barber Creek decided to work with other local groups interested in water resources in the county, including Oconee Waters and Friends of Calls Creek, as the Board of Commissioners considers adoptions of a new Water and Wastewater Master Plan.

For more on this story, including details of plans for gravity sewer lines down Barber and other creeks in the county, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Allan Antley on Barber Creek.