Months later, still no response to counter proposal

Six months later, talks between Oconee County and the Joint Regional Sewer Authority over who maintains the Golden Corner Commerce Park pump station appear to be going nowhere. The matter of the JRSA’s counter proposal was raised during last night’s meeting of the JRSA policy-making board. Chris Eleazer, executive director, told the board that he instructed JRSA attorney Larry Brandt to tell County Attorney David Root that none of seven items that make of the counterproposal have been addressed. Eleazer referred to a December 6 letter to County Administrator Scott Moulder that spells out the conditions. The county remains interested in not only sewer service to the still-empty industrial park, but eventually piped sewer for other parts of the southern end of the county, including the I-85 corridor. The conditions in the JRSA counter proposal include a requirement that all extensions to Sewer South be approved by the JRSA and that the county reimburse the city of Seneca for the “ design, construction, start-up, operation, maintenance costs.”