Prospective new employer in need of a sewer commitment

The owner of an empty manufacturing building and his prospective tenant were given the chance yesterday to correct utility deficiencies before Oconee Joint Regional Sewer permits a daily discharge of 450 gallons in the wastewater treatment system.  Without that permit, the commissioners were told, manufacturer Heath Blundell cant open a new operation in the empty Jacobs plant building along the 123 Seneca-Clemson corridor.  Blundell proposes an operation that would create a handful of new jobs to re-build three-phase electric transformers.  The commissioners approved a motion to grant Blundell six months to fix the plumbing problems, which sewer officials have identified as contributing to I&I–inflow and infiltration.  Chris Eleazer, JRSA executive director, had recommended against the permit based on capacity constraints within the Seneca-Clemson basin.