Oconee County Officials Pass Over State Denial Of Request For Waste Load Allocation For Sewer Plant

Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin Davis told the county’s Industrial Development Authority yesterday (Monday) that the state has granted the county a waste load allocation of 1.5 millions gallons per day for its Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant.

What Davis didn’t tell the IDA members–and what they didn’t ask about–was the Georgia Environmental Protection Division’s decision to deny the county’s request for a waste load allocation of 3 million gallons per day of discharge from the county’s plant.

Davis’ presentation replicated comments by Oconee County Utility Department Director Wayne Haynie to the Board of Commissioners on Oct. 4.

Haynie also didn’t mention the denial of the request for the larger waste load allocation.

Because the state didn’t grant the requested 3 MGD of discharge into Calls Creek, the county now must decide to change its plans to upgrade its Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant, to run a sewer line down Calls Creek, or to find another way to discharge treated sewer water into the Middle Oconee River.

For details of this story, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Melvin Davis.