Athens-Clarke County has excess capacity at its Middle Oconee Water Reclamation Facility, the sewer plant closest to Oconee County, an analysis of the Discharge Monitoring Reports for the plant since January of this year shows.

Athens-Clarke County also has a gravity feed sewer line running along its side of McNutt Creek, paralleling the sewer line that Oconee County is building from Bogart to Epps Bridge Parkway on its side of the stream.

The existing ACC sewer line already carries sewage from a limited number of customers in Oconee County to the Middle Oconee plant.

That ACC sewer line would seem to offer an opportunity for Oconee County to connect easily to the Middle Oconee plant, at least in the short run, and meet its pressing needs for sewerage treatment capacity.

It also would be possible for Oconee County to extend the McNutt Creek gravity feed line on its side of the creek to near the ACC Middle Oconee plant. Oconee County’s long-range plans call for construction of that sewer line.

Oconee County has approached Athens-Clarke County about utilizing that county’s underutilized sewage treatment capacity, but so far those discussions have not been fruitful.

For more, visit Oconee County Observations.