Only three people stepped forward last month when the Walton County Water and Sewer Authority invited residents of Oconee and Walton counties to offer comments on an Environmental Information Document prepared for the planned water treatment plant on the Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir.
Oconee County is partner with Walton County on the reservoir and the planned treatment plant, which, at some point in the future, is expected to be expanded to treat water pumped from the Apalachee River.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 184 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Dec. 27, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 268 cases in the week ending on Dec. 20, 274 cases in the week ending on Dec. 13, 178 cases in the week ending on Dec. 6, 155 cases in the week ending Nov. 29, and 145 cases in the week ending Nov. 22.
The Georgia Department of Education earlier this month released its College and Career Ready Performance Index showing that Oconee County Schools exceeded the state averages on four of the five components of the Index.
The Department of Education does not compute scores for school systems, but rather for individual schools in the system and for grade clusters, and Oconee County Schools had the top score in the state at the Elementary, Middle, and High school grade clusters on the Content Mastery component.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 268 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Dec. 20, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 274 cases in the week ending on Dec. 13.
The redistricting maps passed by the Georgia legislature earlier this month, signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp, and now before U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones for review make no changes to the state House and Senate districts in which Oconee County falls.
The Republican-controlled legislature, however, did change the composition of U.S. House District 10, which includes Oconee County.
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has acknowledged that its proposed detour during the construction of the SR 316 interchange with Jimmy Daniell Road may result in increased traffic in the Deerbrook/Silverleaf neighborhood.
The posted detour from the construction of the interchange would bypass those neighborhoods and follow Atlanta Highway and U.S. 78/Monroe Highway, Eric Duff, State Environmental Administrator with GDOT, informed residents of those neighborhoods.
Oconee County is expecting the discolorization of water in its system resulting from high levels of manganese to have dissipated on Tuesday.
Oconee County Water Resources staff was doing heavy flushing of the lines on Monday, Oconee County Administrator Justin Kirouac said late Monday morning.
