Oconee County Had Draft Plans For The Route Of The Calls Creek Sewer Line At Least A Year Before It Told Public

Oconee County has been working on specific plans for construction of a sewer pipeline down Calls Creek since at least March of 2015, or nearly a year before it revealed those plans to citizens living along the creek.

The county began making specific plans for the 24-inch pipeline after it appraised at least two key pieces of property, one on the Middle Oconee River and the other adjoining the county’s existing wastewater treatment plant on Calls Creek.

The county was not able to come to terms with either of the property owners.

In the meantime, the county has gone forward with plans to upgrade its pump stations and pipelines leading to the Calls Creek plant, making it all the more important that the pipeline down Calls Creek be built.

With the pipeline in place, the county could phase out the Calls Creek plant at some point in the future if it had success in acquiring property on the Middle Oconee River for a new plant.

In that case, the pipeline down Calls Creek could be converted from a conduit of treated sewage water to one that carries raw sewage from throughout the county to a new facility on the Middle Oconee River.

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

Pictured: Key map.