Oconee County Commissioners To Consider Paying $425,000 For Sewer Easements At Jennings Mill Golf Course

Oconee County commissioners Tuesday night will be asked to spend $425,000 to purchase easements to build the McNutt Creek sewer line through the golf course at Jennings Mill Country Club.

The golf course straddles McNutt Creek, and the creek is incorporated into the course’s design.

The creek forms the border between Oconee and Clarke counties, and Oconee County wants to build a line to bring sewage from Bogart to Epps Bridge Parkway, where the waste is to be pumped to the county’s sewage treatment plant on Calls Creek.

The county’s plans ran into opposition from the owners of the golf course, forcing the county to consider a different routing of the line.

Commissioners also are to take up a special use zoning request from Jenny and Gary Evans for a professional home office at 1490 Calls Creek Circle, outside Watkinsville, and consider allowing Athens Technical College to lease space in the county’s crowded Government Annex.

The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Courthouse in Watkinsville.

For more on this story, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: 16th Green at Jennings Mill.