Politics & Government
Volunteer Group To Sample Water From Barber Creek Near Sewage Spill In Oconee County
UOWN has called a meeting for Sept. 24 to discuss ways to increase citizen involvement in assessing stream quality.
Volunteers from the Upper Oconee Watershed Network (UOWN) plan to do sampling from Barber Creek Tuesday morning upstream and downstream from the sewage spill on Aug. 21.
Vicki Soutar, a retired Oconee County science teacher and UOWN volunteer, will lead the group. The goal is to determine if the spill had lasting impact on the water quality of the creek.
Soutar has been active in sampling from Oconee County creeks for years and is spearheading an effort to increase the monitoring of county streams in the future.
Soutar and colleagues have called a meeting for from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 24 at the Oconee County Library on Experiment Station Road in Watkinsville to discuss ways to increase citizen involvement in assessing stream quality.
That meeting is open to the public.
For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Warning sign on tributary to Barber Creek.