Oconee missing I-85 opportunity?

These days if you motor north on I-85 from the South Carolina Welcome Center at Fair Play, one of the first things you’ll notice is a sign advertising the city of Greer, South Carolina—the city that sits in both Greenville and Spartanburg counties. What’s not apparent is a sizeable sign or marker telling I-85 motorists that, besides entering South Carolina, they’ve also just entered the Land Beside the Water, Oconee County, South Carolina, and at least one Oconee County councilman doesn’t think that’s right. Glenn Hart, whose District Five, takes in Oconee’s four-mile stretch of 85 says there has been talk about an official county entrance sign or marker, but that’s all of it has been, so far, just talk. Hart is a proponent of Oconee taking greater advantage of its section of the interstate highway and says engineering surveys to run sewer pipe in that direction have been completed. Those surveys are part of the county’s Sewer South project—an attempt, thru sewer, to bring new economic development to the southern end of the county.