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The Braselton News
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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Community calendar
Friends of Braselton Library booksale
ahead March 23-25
Friends of the Braselton-West Jackson library will host another "giant
book sale" on March 23-25.
Sale proceeds support books and programs of the library in downtown
Braselton. Field in the community room on the lower level of the Braselton
Police and Court Building (5040 Flwy. 53), the sale hours are 9 a.m to 5 p.m.
on March 23 and 24 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 25. Hard
backs and paperbacks of all categories will be available. For additional
information, call June McRae at 404-245-0725.
Cub Scout Pack 282 hosting
Touch a Truck March 27
Cub Scout Pack 282 will host "Touch a Truck" March 27 from 6-7 p.m.
at West Jackson Elementary School at 391 East Jefferson St. in Hoschton.
"Join us for a fun night of getting up close and learning about different
types of vehicles you may see in our community," organizers said.
Braselton Friends of the Library to meet April 6
The Braselton-West Jackson Friends of the Library will hold their annual
meeting on Thursday, April 6, at 5 p.m. in the community room of the Bra
selton Police and Municipal Court building. The public is invited to attend.
Braselton Antique and Artisan Festival
set for April 21-23
The spring Braselton Antique and Artisan Festival is scheduled for April
21-23 in downtown Braselton on Harrison St.
The event will feature over 350 vendors (including 12 food vendors), live
music and drink tents. Admission, parking and shuttle are free.
For more information, visit www.vintagemarkets.net or call 706-824-
7204.
Hoschton Farmers Market Preview Day
ahead April 29
The Hoschton Farmers Market Preview Day is scheduled for April 29
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 115 Towne Center Pkwy. This event will provide a
sneak preview of the 2023 market, including face painting, live music and
a bounce slide. The market will run from June to September.
Jackson County High School
fine arts performance schedule
Here is the remaining performance schedule at the JCHS Auditorium
for the Jackson County High School (JCHS) fine arts programs:
JCHS DRAMA CLUB
•"The Wedding Singer"—April 27-30*
JCHSCHORUS
•Chorus spring concert—May 4,7 p.m.
JCHS DANCE ("JAXCO DANCERS")
•May 11,7 p.m.
JCHS BAND
•Jazz band—April 11*
• Spring concert—Apri 118,7 p.m.
• May jazz band dessert concert—date and time TBD
• limes not yet available
Braselton Farmers Market continues
The Braselton Farmers Market will continue with monthly markets un
til May 5 when it shifts to weekly markets. Weekly markets run through
September.
Monthly markets will resume in October. There is no December market.
Each market starts at 4 p.m. The market is moving to the Braselton Town
Green, adjacent to its previous location on Davis St., to allow for more
space.
BraseltonTech Spark Sessions continue
BraseltonTech — a private-public initiative between the Town of Bra
selton and the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Geor
gia Tech — continues its "spark sessions" at the Braselton Civic Center
to provide advice and support for startup tech companies. The remaining
schedule is as follows: April 13, May 18, June 15, July 13 and Aug. 10. All
sessions begin at 6 p.m.
BraseltonTech's partner, ATDC, is a Georgia economic development or
ganization funded by the state legislature and managed underthe Georgia
Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute. ATDC is the oldest technology busi
ness accelerator in the U.S., and its graduating companies have raised
over $3 billion in venture capital. The BraseltonTech workshops are free
and open to the public. Space, however, is limited.
For more information or to register, visit www.BraseltonTec.com.
Church continued from 1A
doesn’t consider the visibility of a structure, regardless.
“It just says, blanket, that all four sides must meet the gate
way standards,” he said.
Hall County planning staff had recommended denial of the
variance; contending approval would lead to inconsistent devel
opment standards in the district.
Kim described the church as a Korean-American mission in
his variance request paperwork. He said plans for the church
include an Asian-American Community Center to hold com
munity conferences, activities and public forums.
“It’s a growing congregation,” Kuk said at the planning com
mission meeting.
The church’s variance request will go before the Hall County
Board of Commissioners on April 26, which will make a final
decision.
Around town
Weekly snapshots from around the Braselton-Hoschton community
JAXCO DANCERS
Photo by Ben Munro
Kortney English (left) and Ja’Niya Joseph dance to CeeLo Green’s hit song, “Forget You,” during
Thursday’s (March 16) Jaxco Dancers performance at Jackson County High School.
Jackson County
Water supply and distribution nearing capacity, authority says
By Hannah Barron
hannah@mainstreetnews.com
The Jackson County Water and
Sewerage Authority received a pre
sentation about the 2022 water mas
ter plan during its March 9 meeting.
Nathan Hester, the authority’s se
nior engineer, reported the findings
and the 2030 and 2050 capital im
provement plan projects.
Since 2015, the authority’s cus
tomer base has grown from 7,800
to 11.500 — nearly 50% growth in
just seven years.
In those seven years, wastewater
connections also jumped from 900
to 3,346, for a growth rate of 371%.
“That kind of growth is just
amazing and hard to deal with, plan
for.” Hester said.
Of particular concern is the West
Jackson area, he added.
West Jackson grows by about 500
houses a year. If the growth contin
ues at that pace, the water distribu
tion system will be at capacity in
that area in seven years.
“That timeframe is without any
corrective measures,” Hester said.
As part of the capital improve
ment plan, he discussed projects
that would be corrective measures
to help buy some time and provide
more capacity.
The 2030 projects for the overall
service area include large-diame
ter transmission mains concentrat
ed on getting water to West Jack-
son; fire flow coverage in North
Jackson; an elevated storage tank
in South Jackson; and the redun
dancy of the Galilee pump station
with the construction of an addi
tional pump station in the area to
get water to the west.
The projects total an estimated
$151 million and would need to
be complete by 2030. Of that total.
$98 million is in projects needed to
better serve West Jackson.
“If the trend continues, which is
what we have to plan for, we’re at
that limit,” Hester said. “Everything
we commit to, especially beyond
what we have now, is putting us on
the hook for those CIP projects.”
“I think we can we can bring that
number down through some policy
initiatives,” he added. “We really
need to get creative to try to buy
some time. Because it’s happening
so quickly, that time has become
more and more pressing.”
“We strive as a water utility to
say yes ... we want to serve, we
want to sell water and sewer. We
just want to do it as smart as we
can, and we want to sell what we
can actually provide.”
The authority also plans to design
a lot of the projects in-house to save
on some of the costs.
There are also other options to
help with time and costs, as well as
to provide more capacity.
Options discussed include locat
ing groundwater resources through
the testing of well sites; partner
ing with neighbors in different
basins that may have better reser
voir yields; looking into building
a regional authority; looking into
regional connection fees; potential
ly reducing the amount of whole
sale water sold to Braselton and
Hoschton; and potentially limiting
subdivision size by number of lots
or phases.
The water master plan will be
refined as needed and adopted at a
later meeting.
In other business, the authority
approved a preliminary water and
sewer application for Heroes Ele
mentary, which will be the newest
elementary school in the Jackson
County School System.
Heroes Elementary is set to open
in August 2024 and will be locat
ed off Hwy. 332 and Skelton Rd. in
West Jackson, near Legacy Knoll
Middle School.
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