Oconee County To Let Bids Early In 2015 For New Gravity Sewer Line Along McNutt Creek

Oconee County officials expect to let bids early in January or February for construction of a $2.5 million gravity-fed sewer line running along McNutt Creek from Jimmy Daniell Road to Parkway Boulevard at Kohl’s.

While the county has tried to stay outside the 25-foot buffer the state places on streams, that was not possible in all cases, and the county is waiting on a final approval of a variance to encroach on the buffer for 627 feet along the creek.

The county also has not completed purchase of easements for all of the route, including for sections where the sewer line will cross fairways at Jennings Mill Country Club. Construction of the sewer line is expected to require temporary closing of some of the fairways.

The McNutt Creek sewer project is part of an upgrade and expansion of the county’s sewerage treatment system that will include modifications to the line running from Epps Bridge Parkway at Parkway Boulevard to Home Depot.

It also will include improvements to the line along Daniells Bridge Road and then Government Station Road. That line runs to the county’s only treatment plant just outside Watkinsville.

Plans are for the McNutt Creek line to be extended at some point in the future along McNutt Creek from Epps Bridge Parkway to a new sewage treatment plant on the Middle Oconee River near Simonton Bridge Road.

For details of the construction and of other plans for the county’s sewage infrastructure, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: McNutt Creek At 16th Green At Jennings Mill.