A cry on behalf of Oconee’s farming community

A contract to pipe sewer through Fair Play to the interstate may be just a signature away, but that didn’t stop supporters of county agriculture from pressing the county’s fathers that, without safeguards, the livelihoods of farmers are jeopardized and the flow of food products weakened.  Gwen McPhail, part of a Pine Grove Road farm family, led the comments of concern last night in front of the county council.  She and Louise Lusk implore the county fathers to preserve green spaces when development follows the laying of sewer pipe which they see as inevitable and a potential disruption to a valuable rural lifestyle.  Fair Play resident Luke Moore expressed worry that, as the result of the scuttling of the Sanctuary Pointe project, county residents will get billed for the extension of sewer for which there are, at this point, apparently a lack of customers now that Sanctuary Pointe and projects features won’t happen.  For years, county officials have been consistent in their belief that, once sewer is available on Oconee’s four-mile section of 85, paying development will follow.