Georgia Environmental Protection Division Accepts Again Plans For Small Upgrade To Oconee County Calls Creek Sewer Plant

Oconee County has received “concurrence” from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division for an upgrade of its Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant from its current 0.667 million gallons per day to 1 million gallons per day of effluent.

The EPD had approved an earlier design for the upgrade of the plant in June of 2015 and had approved construction of the project on Dec. 30, 2015, but the county did not move forward on those plans.

The EPD actually had allocated 1 million gallons per day of discharge from the Calls Creek in 2003 and approved a design for the plant expansion on Dec. 18, 2003.

The county submitted a modification to the 2015 plans this year, and Benoit Causse from the Municipal Permitting Unit of the EPD Wastewater Regulatory Program wrote to Oconee County Utility Department Director Wayne Haynie on Nov. 18 saying “We hereby concur with the document.”

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Pictured: Abe Abouhamdan, Right, At Meeting on Friday morning.