“I was contacted and now it seems that the state of Georgia seems interested in this taking place also.” “I was not trying to circumvent any Authority here,” Thompson said. “And they are getting to the point to be able to make a proposal that I would like to bring to this Board and at least look and see what sort of revenue or what sort of route could be negotiated with them.” “And in the process I have had since three meetings with them. “The item of the meeting ended up being they are very interested in purchasing raw water from Hard Labor Creek Reservoir,” he continued. Saxon turned the meeting over to Thompson after the regular business had been conducted.īefore he took office, Thompson told the Management Board, he had been contacted by the Newton County Water and Sewer Authority, “which wanted to meet with me, and feel me out on how I felt about our reservoir.” Oconee County is responsible for 28.8 percent of the costs of the reservoir and is entitled to that same percentage of the water. The Walton County Water and Sewer Authority holds the permits for the reservoir, which is in Walton Count northeast of Social Circle.
While the chair of the Management Board runs the meetings, the session is a joint one with the Walton County Water and Sewer Authority. Kevin Little, who had been vice-chair of the Management Board, stepped down as Walton County chair and from the Management Board at the end of last year. Tuesday’s meeting was his first as a Management Board member. Thompson serves on the Management Board ex-officio, and he joined the Board in January after his election as chair of the Walton County Board of Commissioners. Mark Saxon, Oconee County commissioner, was re-elected Board chair, and Thompson was elected as vice-chair. Project manager Jimmy Parker told the Board design work on the structure will resume in June. The Board discussed its plans for construction of an intake structure on the Apalachee River at High Shoals. The meeting on Tuesday of the Management Board was a routine one until Thompson spoke. “I just feel that all of you guys need to know that these conversations are taking place,” Thompson said in explaining his announcement. Thompson is one of four Walton County representative on the seven-member Management Board, and two of Oconee County’s three representatives on the Board asked for clarification of the discussions and involvement in them in the future. Thompson made his announcement in comments at the end of the Tuesday meeting of the Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir Management Board in Monroe. The water could help with development of a massive research park along I-20 on the southern tip of the county, he said. Thompson said the state is supportive of the interbasin transfer of water from the Oconee to Ocmulgee river basins. Thompson said he had three meetings with Newton County officials in recent months and that state officials also had been involved.
Walton County Board of Commissioners Chair David Thompson announced on Tuesday that he has been meeting with officials from Newton County about sale of water from the Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir to Newton County. ***Oconee County Representatives Ask For Details***
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