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Summerville Takes First
Step To Preserve Water
The City of Summerville
took a first step toward
safeguarding its main water
su{’ply Monday night by
authorizing its engineers to
determine what state grants
are available to finance a study
of the issue.
Meanwhile, the City Coun
cil tabled until early 1989 fur
ther discussion on whether to
abolish its Recreation Board.
The panel seemed interested in
determining whether the new
Chattooga County commis
sioner would be interested in
establishing a joint city-county
operation.,
RELOCATION
It also tabled a discussion
on whether the city will bear
the expense of relocating city
water and natural gas lines
alonf U. S. Highway 27 from
Maple Drive south to just past
the Chattooga River bridge.
The matter is expected to come
up at the Council’'s Oct. 10
meeting.
In other action, the Council
approved bids to paint new
sarking places in the
owntown area, to clean out
sediment ponds at the water
filter (slant, for materials in the
gas egartment and to per
manently raise the height of
the dam in Raccoon Creek.
Grady McCalmon, city
manager, told the Council that
the city could obtain a 50-50
grant from the state of Georgia
to finance a study on protec
ting the flow of Raccoon Creek.
The city has been waiting on a
decision from Karastan
Bigelow (formerly Georgia
Rug) in Summerville as to
whether it would remain in the
city or move its main opera
tions to Lyerly, McCalmon in
dicated, ‘‘but we need to go
ahead now (with a study) while
state participation 1s still
availab?e.” Karastan Bigelow
is Summerville’s largest water
user.
NEEDS STUDY
The News revealed last
April that a preliminary water
needs study conductecf, by the
state recommended that con
sideration be given to building
a water reservoir in at least one
of three locations in Chattooga
County. State and city officials
discussed the study d‘\,Jring the
first part of this year but no
followup discussions were
scheduled, pending a decision
b{ Karastan Bigelow on its
plans for the future.
The state has estimated
that the county — including
Trion, Menlo, Lyerly, Summer
ville and Chattooga Water
District 1 — will have a water
shortfall of one million gallons
by the year 2020.
The city manager has told
the Councif’ previously that the
state is taking a harder line
toward protecting the flow of
streams used as water supply
sources. For example, while
Raccoon Creek might have ade
guate water during most
rought seasons to sup¥ly the
city, the state might refuse to
increase Summerville’s permit
ted withdrawal amount to pro
tect the overall flow of the
stream.
RESERVOIRS
Two potential ‘“‘augmenta
tion reservoir’’ sites were pro
posed by the state study. gur
pose of the lakes woul(i, be to
store water that could be
released into Raccoon Creek
during drought periods to en
sure adequate flow and to pro
vide the city with sufficient
water.
One proposed 25- to 30-acre
reservoir would be located
north of Jarrett's gormerly
Hair) Lake and the other 15- to
20-acre lake would be nor
thwest of Gamble Spring, ac
cording to the state study.
Each proposed lake would pro
vide the city with a 60- to
90-day supply of water.
That same study, however,
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seemed to look more favorably
on construction of a reservoir
on the East Fork of Little
River. It said a 110-acre lake
located northwest of Neal Gap
and west of Mount Olive
Church would provide the area
with a year's supply of water.
FIRST STOP
It went on to say that the
first steg in determining what
action should be taken would
be to have a consulti:li;
engineer perform a more detail
ed analysis of potential water
sup;])(l{ sites. A second step
would be to design a dam and
lake while the final step would
be to actually build a reservoir.
The Environmental Protec
tion Division (EPD) of the
Georgia Department of
Natural Resources offers?
grants of up to 50 percent of
the cost for conducting a detail
ed study of a potential water
source. "she state will now also
pay up to 50 percent of the cost
of designing a lake and dam.
However, local govern
ments must bear the entire
cost of actually building a dam
and lake. : g .
Meanwhile, the Council
awarded a contract to Duncan
and Sons Contractors, Trion,
to clean out the sediment
ponds at the water treatment
plant near Berr{ton. It submit
ted a low bid of $5,180. James
Wilson and Company, Chat
tanooga, Tenn., submitted a
bid of $5,200.
DAM
The city also gave
McCalmon authority to afi)-
grove a contract to raise the
eight of the Raccoon Creek
dam Bermanently by about a
foot. Duncan and Sons submit
ted an apparent low bid of
$1,912. \g’g\ite Construction
Co., Summerville, submitted a
bid of $6,482, while David
Smith Contractors, Summer
ville, handed in a bid of $3,280.
The city manager said Sum
merville employees had raised
the dam’s level temporarily
this summer to give the city an
additional amount of water to
draw from durini the drought.
Increasing the height of the
dam permanently and raising
the water plant’'s intake
system would give the city an
additional three- to four-day
supf)ly of water.
n other matters, a discus
sion on abolishing the city’'s
Recreation Board was on the
agenda for Monday night’s
meeting but the Council agreed
to table the issue until after a
new county commissioner goes
in office on Jan. 1. Democrat
Jim Parker and Republican
Fondren Wright are seeking
the post. Incumbent Harry
Powell was defeated in the
Democratic primary.
NO DECISION
Mayor Sewell Cash said he
felt that no decision should be
made until the Council meets
with the board to discuss the
issue candidly. Councilman
Ronnie Pilcher agreed.
Councilman Phil Cavin,
who brought up the issue at
the panel's August meeting,
suggested that the issue be
tabled until early next year.
The city should determine if
the new commissioner is in
terested in setting up a joint
city-county recreation depart
ment, he said. Members of the
Council agreed informally with
Cavin's suggestion.
Recreation has been a bone
of contention between the city
and county for several years
and the status of the recreation
board has been debated more
than once by the Council. City
officials seem to have been ir
ritated at times by the Recrea
tion Board referring matters to
the Council that the Council
thinks should have been handl
ed by the Board itself.
TABLED
Cavin brought up the issue
of the board on Aug. 10 but
most members of the Council
got off on other matters at the
time, Cash then said the pro
posal would be Cplaced on the
agenda for the Council’s Sept.
12 meeting. He suggested then
that the Council meet first with
the Board before proceeding
further,
The Council discussed
abolishing the board in
Februarzv. 1986. Cavin moved
at that time to get rid of the
[)anel but his motion failed for
ack of a second. At a work ses
sion several weeks before that
meeting, the Council had voted
informally to abolish the
Board.
REJECTED
In other action, the beard
unanimously rejected a request
from the Board that the city
fund a part-time employee to
operate the Fairway Recrea
tion Center from 8 a.m. to 1
?.m. on weekdays duriné the
all and winter months. Coun
cil members appeared to think
that the tpost could be handled
by one of the recreation depart
menht'S current (_amployees._
Guinn Hankins, a member
of the Council and Recreation
Board, said when asked that he
was told at last week's Board
meeting that an existin
employee couldn’t be spareg
from the Bolling Road recrea
tion complex to handle the
Fairway job.
Jesse Mann, a member of
the recreation panel, brought
up the issue last week by say
ing that a number of adults
would use the center durini the
momins%hours if it were egt
open. She also suggested the
gossibility of using volunteers
or the project. The city had
funded a part-time employee to
keep the center open afil day
during the late summer.
RELOCATION
The agenda called for a
discussion on the city bearing
the exE:nse of relocatin%r its
utilitly ines along U. S. 27 from
Maple Drive to gast the Chat
tooia River bridge.
t Mayor Cash's sugges
tion, the discussion was
Bostponed until the Oct. 10
ouncil meeting. He noted that
a public hearing will be held
Sept. 29 at the Summerville
Recreation Center on a propos
ed U.S. 27 bypass around
Summerville an(r Trion. The
sesssion will be held from 4 to
7 p.m., sponsored by the
Georgia Department of
Transportation.
City officials have general
ly supported a four-lane road
way into Summerville but the
DOT has said that no more
than a three-lane roadway will
be built from the foot of
Taylors Ridge to Maple Drive.
However, the bridge is suppos
ed to be widened enough to ac
commodate four lanes of
traffic.
If the roadway is widened
to three lanes, the city would
have to pay for the cost of
relocating its utilities,
McCalmon said.
PARKING SPACES
In other matters, the Coun
cil gave McCalmon authority
to determine if all specifica
tions had been met by bidders
on painting new parking
stripes in the downtown area
and to approve a contract on
the I;)roject.
hil Zimmerman submitted
the apparent low bid of $1,085.
Other bids submitted were:
Gerald Dempsey, Summerville,
$3,338.93; gfiatta Vac Swep
pers, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
$1,325; and Straight Arrow
Inc., Resaca, $1,500.
The Council awarded a con
tract to Pro Tex for materials
to be used by the city's gas
department in Floyd gounty.
The Pro Tex bid was $1,712.50.
Allied Construction, Atlanta,
submitted a bid of $1,928.65.
The city also approved a
contract with Tri-State Supp
hy, Rome, for $2,918.05 in gas
epartment inventory supplies.
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ted a bid of $2,930.
OTHER ACTION
In other action, the Council:
— Asked McCalmon to
check into a water drainage
groblem on Seventh Avenue at
aith Temple Church and in
gpect an overgrown lot on
it Svenus,. |
— Tabled until October the
first reading on an ordinance
that woulg allow a small
number of city employees to
decide whether to join the
Social Securitg' system.
— Decided to amend its
natural gas ordinance to allow
homeowners to do work on the
fias appliances in their own
omes.
— Selected the Chattooga
County Memorial Home as the
site for the annual cookout for
city emznloyees on Thursday,
Sept. 22.
— Approved the extension
of a two-inch gas line along
Greeson Street to the home of
Jim Pinion at a cost of $500.20.
— Tabled until Oct. 12 a
decision on whether to install
fire hydrants in Knollwood
Subdivision.
ORDINANCE
— Placed on first reading an
ordinance that would prohibit
%arking and tres%assing on
ankson Drive in the city’s in
dustrial park off Highway 100.
— Heard a report that the
fire department plans to pur
chase a 1,000-gallon ‘‘dump
tank' that cou%d be used to
quickly refill the city’s tankers.
— Approved a parade per
mit for the city’'s Dec. 2
Christmas parade with a rain
date of Dec. 8. S
— Gave permission for the
Chattooga Band Boosters Club
to sell concessions at the
parade again this year.
— Heard from McCalmon
that the cifty has t,hreel “good”
rospects for its speculative in
gustg?:l building.pec
— Observed a time of
silence in honor of city
emfployee Bill Younfi and his
wife, who were killed in a
weekend traffic accident. The
Council also authorized closing
city services Wednesday after
noon so employees could at
tend the double funeral.
— Heard a request by
McCalmon that the city con
sider restructuring its d‘t;part
ments in an effort to reduce the
cost of liability insurance. No
formal action was taken.
— Authorized city em
ployees to haul chert to the site
of a firoposed parking area for
the Head Start program pro
vided the chert is supplie(r by
the county and the city can
lease the private tract for at
least two years.
PAVING
— Approved the paving of
West Washington Avenue ad
jacent to the First United
Methodist Church at an
estimated cost of $2,400. Coun
cilman Ira Pollard said the
tract was on the city’'s right-of
'way. The proposaf hacF been
discussed earlier by the
Council.
— Became involved in a
lengthy discussion with
employee John Eniland about
the ade(gxacy of his plely in
crease this summer. Mayor
Cash and the Council said tKey
would review the city’s entire
employee classification and
wage system in January with
a view toward correcting any
inequities.
Friday Deadline
The deadline for commen
ting on a proposal by a Florida
holding company to buy First
Federal Savings and Loan
Assn. in Summerville is
Friday.
A decision on an effort by
Barnett Banks Inc., Jackson
ville, Fla., to acquire the finan
cially ailing institution is ex
pected in the immediate future,
possibly as early as next week.
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Fire Damages Jim’s Drive-In
An early morning fire Wednesday caus
ed extensive damage to Jim's Drive-In,
Lyerly Highway, Summerville. Firemen
responded to the blaze at 5:58 a.m. and
were on duty until 7:30 a.m. The building
Lyerly Looking For State Grant
Lyerly City Council voted
Tuesday night to give S2OO to
the Lyerly Parent-Teacher
Orgranization.
he council also approved
g?yment of SBIO to Doug
oseley for his recent
bulldozer work at Angus
McLeod Park.
Mayor Danny Wyatt
reported that a second round of
well drilling should start Oct. 1.
Wells drilled earlier this
year did not provide enough
water for the city's needs, and
the city will UY again to find
at least one well that can help
supply the city’s water
demands, Wyatt said.
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Threat To Trion Woman
Marie Perkins of Trion late Wednesday was anxiously
waiting word on the damage Hurricane Gilbert did when it
passed over Cancun, Mexico. Mrs. Perkins said her daughter,
Jeannie Leyva, lives in Cancun.
“I haven't heard anything about the devastation or loss
of life there,” Mrs. Perkins saifi Wednesday afternoon. *‘l don’t
believe there's any possible way to get through on the
telephone. I flresume all the lines are down. It's hard enough
just to get through in normal times.”
‘Mrs. Perkins said she was trying to find a ham radio
oyerator who might be monitoring the weather in that part
of the hemisphere, or who was tracking the storm, but she
was unable to find anyone who could give her any information.
“T just thought they'd all be tuned into the area to see what
happened, but they're not.”
Her daughter is married to a Mexican man, Mrs. Perkins
said. They five in Cancun.
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The Summerville News, Thursdqy.isggtgmiber 15, 1988 .
teson said he is developing a
SIOO,OOO state grant applica
tion for the ci?'. The money
would be used to improve
McLeod Park by building a
?avilion and two baseball
ields.
Matteson said that a
survery of Lyerly households
would be conducted between
now and November by Council
members. The survey will
determine if Lyerly qualifies
for the grant.
The Council also reported
that there are other funding
sources for paving the walking
track at the park, and money
from the grant that could be
used to pay for paving might
be used on other projects for
the park.
was heavily damaged by fire in the kit
chen area and the rest of the structure
received smoke and water damage. The
fire apparentlfy began in the %lill or deep
fry area. (Staff Photo By Earl McConnell).
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Youngster
Improves
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At Hospital
Little Kenneth Thompson
of Lyerly, who underwent
heart surgery last Wednesday,
Se‘)t. 7, was reported doing
well at Children's Hooritd in
Philadelphia, Pa., early this
week,
Lisa Davenport, who
spearheaded a bake sale to
raise funds for medical ex-
Wnses for the infant, said
ednesday that Kenneth was
taking nourishment by bottle
and virtually all tubes had been
removed from his tiny body.
He may get to return home on
Sept. 24 or 25, Mrs. Davenport
said.
BAKE SALE
The bake sale last weekend
raised more than S2OO while a
benefit singing at the Berryton
Community Center raised
some S3OO, she said. Donations
of some SSOO have also been
reported.
Kenneth, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Thompson, was
born on Aug. 27 but developed
breathing problems on Seg: 1.
He apparently suffered a heart
attack due to a ruptured heart
valve.
Kenneth was rushed to
Chattooga County Hospital,
then to Atlanta and from there
to Philadelphia where his heart
was repaired.