Oconee County Utility Department Director Says He Will Not Ask Commissioners To Build A Pipeline Down Calls Creek

Oconee County Utility Department Director Wayne Haynie is scheduled to ask the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night to approve his upgrade plans for the Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant, but he says those plans do not include an effluent pipeline down the creek.

In fact, Haynie told Jim McGarvey of Friends of Calls Creek in an email message on Friday that the county is no longer planning a sewer line down Calls Creek.

Rather, Haynie told McGarvey, current plans are focused on new facilities on the Middle Oconee River, even though the plans to be presented on Tuesday night include design components for a larger facility at the Calls Creek plant.

The commissioners also on Tuesday night are scheduled to consider changes to the county’s ordinance regulating the determination of capacity allocation once the new Calls Creek plant is online.

The Board also is to interview applicants for the Joint Comprehensive Plan Stakeholder Committee. A total of 26 citizens have applied, but not all have indicated they will be present to be interviewed for the Committee, which is to have between 20 and 25 members.

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Pictured: Utility Department Director Wayne Haynie.