Politics & Government
Oconee County Reported Two New Sewage Spills To The State
One of the spills was at the Calls Creek sewer plant, and the other was behind Creekside subdivision on McNutt Creek.
Oconee County reported two new sewage spills to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division on Friday, one of which was classified as a “major spill” and involved the discharge of sewage into Calls Creek.
The smaller spill was into McNutt Creek behind Creekside subdivision, which is on the east side of Jimmy Daniell Road at the county line.
The spill into Calls Creek was at the troubled Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant on Durhams Mill Way north of Watkinsville, where a separation of pipe allowed sewage to flow for five minutes into the creek.
Because the Calls Creek spill is being treated as major, the county is required to post signs in the affected area and to place a notice in The Oconee Enterprise, the county’s designated legal organ.
The notice in the paper is scheduled to appear in the paper’s June 5 edition. As of this evening, the notice does not yet appear on the county’s web site.
For details of this story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Utility Department Director Chris Thomas (right) at Board of Commissioners meeting on May 26, 2015.