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— The Summerville News, Thursday, February 24, 2000
Preliminary Talks Get Going
About County Buying Spring
from front page
Parker, said a cou?le of alterna
tives brought up for discussion
included:
] Tr.w'n% to obtain a Com
munity Development Block
Grant (CDBG) of up to $500,000
from the state Department of
Communit{ Affairs to combine
with the almost $2-million in
GEFA monies. It might be pos
sible to use the block grant funds
to build a filtration plant and the
GEFA money to drill wells and
install the planned water lines,
Plemons said then.
2. Or, determining if the
District 1 water authority could
work out a cooperative arrange
ment with the City of Summer
ville for sufficient water to sup
ply a water tank atop Taylor
Ridge, he added then. It was
learned later that Summerville
then didn't have enough water to
supply the eastern side of the
county.
NO FLOYD HELP
Another idea was to deter
mine if Floyd County’s water de
partment could serve that area
with the help of Chattooga
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Count{, Thomtpson said.
Floyd officials were con
tacted but didn't respond so that
Proposal ap;f)ears to have died
rom a lack of interest exhibited.
Plus, an engineer for Floyd said
the county water system didn’t
have enough water to supgly
eastern Chattooga County be
cause of grown in the north f)art
of that county, especially along
U.S. 27.
If wells were to be drilled
and enough uncontaminated
water found, at least two would
have been needed east of Taylor
Ridge with one serving as a
backup, Plemons and Thompson
said last year.
Federal and state environ
mental regulations have become
so restrictive that finding a well
site would be difficult, officials
said at last year’s June 24 hear
ing.
RULES TIGHTER
'l‘hom;ison said in mid-1999
that Schrock had learned that the
EPD had tightened its regula
tions for drinking water we%ls:
First, two wells would have
been required.
Second, a 500-foot radius
around each well would have to
be “f)rotected,” meaning that no
buildings of any kind, feed
trouihs or watering troughs
could be located within that area.
The estimates of space needed
inside that radius ranged from 18
to 22 acres. That would have
meant that the Authority would
have had to obtain between 36
and 44 acres of land for two
wells.
PLANTS
Third, two filtration plants
would be required, one for each
well. The Authority had thought
that one plant could serve both
the primary well and proposed
secondary well. In addition, it
had figured that each well should
be ab%e to produce at least 100
gallons per minute (GPM).
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A&S Environmental Ser
vices Inc., Lilburn, had reported
previousß' that the combination
shale and limestone under the
surface at Subligna makes it dif
ficult to obtain a sufficient un
contaminated flow of water from
a well. Limestone is a better
source of clean water, officials
said, because it isn't as apt to be
contaminated by surface water.
LIMESTONE
The A&S report by Robert
Atkins said better andl greater
fiantities of water can usually be
obtained when limestone is un
der the ground'’s surface.
A mixture of shale and lime
stone called the Floyd Shale un
derlies the Subligna area, Atkins
reported. Within that area, A&S
said it had been able to locate
wells Producing 50 GPM.
It wells were to be drilled in
areas where limestone is
interlayered with siltstone and
shale, it moight be possible for
them to produce up to 75 GPM,
Atkins said. He, too, said two or
more wells would be required.
Federal and state environ
mental laws would require a
separate filtration plant for each
well if particles larger than one
micron were found in the water,
officials had said before the June
24 hearing. A micron is much
smaller than the width of a hu
man hair.
1996 EFFORT
As far back as 1996, the
Water Authority had hoped to
drill wells in the Subligna area for
a water source but for a variety
of reasons — rangin% from finan
cial issues to regulations that
couldn’t be met — further efforts
were delayed until mid-1999.
Anot“;er plan outlined last
year had included the following:
*Extending a six-inch main
line owned by the authority along
Penn Bridge Road to the western
foot of Taxlor Ridge at Butler
Dairy Road.
TANK
'Erectin§ a storage tank at
the bottom of the ridfie and an
other storage tank of 100,000
gallons to 200,000 gallons atop
the ridge.
'Usinfi a {)ump to push wa
ter from the lower tank to the
upper tank. Gravity would cause
the water to flow south along
U.S. 27 to Selman Road at Gore
and then north on both the Gore-
Subligna Road and Farmersville
Road to the Subligna commu
nity.
However, Thompson said
that once water authority offi
cials and their engineer, Eddie
Schrock of Williams, Sweitzer
and Barnum, Rome, began going
over that proposal more closely,
they found it unworkable.
NOT ENOUGH
For example, Thompson
said, they learned that the exist
ing well at Trion wasn't sufficient
to provide the amount of water
needed at the end of the six-inch
main connected to the proposed
tank at the bottom of gxe ridge.
One of the wells at Trion also had
to be removed from service for a
geriod during this Sast year's
rought, officials said.
Some 100 water authority
customers are now connected to
the six-inch line between the
Trion well and the bottom of Tay
lor Ridge, Thompson had said.
It was determined that a
minimum flow of 75 to 100 gal
lons per minute could not be
maintained at the end of that
line, he said.
The Water Authority has
1,800 customers served Ky its
system, he indicated in the late
summer of 1999.
STUDY GRANT
Engineer Schrock noted
Plemons Interim Director
For ‘Project Impact’ Here
from front page
$85,000 for its initial start-up
program. The application stated
that the group would spend
$35,000 on personnel, $7,000
on fringe benefits, $9,000 sot
travel-related expenses, $1,500
for sup&ies, $5,500 on contrac
tual labor, $10,200 for “other”
expenses and $16,800 for “indi
rect charges.”
OBJECTS
Some objects of the project
are to bring together various en
tities to create a plan, alonfiewith
its implementation, to make the
county more disaster-resistant
and to involve civic groups and
citizens, according to the panel’s
proposed grant application.
SOME GOALS
The application stated in
part:
“Results and benefits: To
become more disaster-resistant
through education and imple
mentation of disaster-relief ef
forts as determined by the glan,
or plans set forth in the objec
tives.
“Approach: Meet with the
leaders of the communities and
civic organizations to seek input
that former state Representative
Tim Perry of Chattooga County
had obtained a water study grant
for the Subligna-Gore area in
1996. It determined that four
possibilities existed for i)roviding
the eastern side of Taylor Ridge
with water. They included:
1. Drill a new well or find
a spring in the Subligna-Gore
area.
2. Connect that area to
the Water Authority’s line on
Penn Bridge Road.
3. Buywater from the City
of Summerville.
4. Buy water from Floyd
County.
HUD
The Authority tried to ob
tain a federal Housing and Ur
ban Develogement grant, based
on the number of low to moder
ate income households in the
area. It found that 60 Percent of
the households qualified - but
HUD regulations require 90 per
cent.
Next, the lpanel turned to
the Rural Development Fund of
the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture and 164 households signed
up for water. However, sufficient
funds couldn’t be obtained for
finance the expansion and the
Authority tabled the matter.
PARKER-MONEY
When Commissioner
Parker located the GEFA funds,
hope was renewed by the panel
that the well project couFd be
funded and started.
In response to questions at
last June’s Subligna hearing,
Thom%son said a tap-in fee
would be required. It was then
SSOO on the Authority’s existing
system, he said, although tap-in
fees of SI,OOO have been needed
on some expansions.
If the GEFA funds were to
be obtained, he said then, the
Authority likely will have a lower
tap-in fee while the work is un
der way. Once the pro{ect is com
pleted, the fee probably would be
doubled, he said.
FEES
If people pay their tap-in
fees “up front'Paf‘;er the GEFA
funds are obtained and before a
{)roject starts, they mi%ht be
ower than after it starts. Plus, he
said, due to the cost of gaying
back the 20-year-loan, the Au
thority will need an almost 100
percent partici?ation rate by
residents east of Taylor Ridge,
although he said no one would
be forced to tie onto the proposed '
water system.
Thompson said in June that
no minimum monthly fee had yet
been established by the Author
ity since it doesn’t yet know the
exact amount of the loan that will
have to be financed by the
monthly bills. On some current
extensions, the average bill is
$25 to $26, he indicated.
ADJUSTMENT
If the system is built, the
Authority might have to adjust
the minimum charge each quar
ter or each six months for the
first two or three years to deter
mine how much revenue will be
required to make loan payments.
Based on his own experi
ence at his Teloga residence, he
said, the electrical cost of run
ning a well pump is about half
the cost of his monthly bill on the
water system.
“The system would have to
be self-supporting” to retire the
proposed GEFA loan, he said.
Some SSOO monthly would
have to be allocated to maintain
a water system east of the ridge,
Thompson said, and that would
be a “tight” budget although
growth in a water system east of
Taylor Ridge would help produce
more revenue.
as to the weaknesses as they re
late to disasters and examine the
various ways in which they may
be addressed.”
The starting date for the
grant is slated for April 1 and it
1s supposed to last until March
31, 2002.
DEADLINE
The due date to have the
%ant application submitted to
MA is Monday.
Commissioner Parker said
he wanted to turn in the %rant
proposal early to see if FEMA
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Trion
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school superintendent, said he
did not remember Mrs.
Hancock. He said he had a rec
ollection that Clarence Blevins,
then Trion High School princi
pal, had come to him many years
ago about a teacher that Blevins
said was “not workinfi out.”
Kinzy said he couldn’t recall
whether that woman was a Mrs.
Hancock.
“WONDERED”
“We did have an Angela
Hancock who taught here for
about one semester or less,” said
Blevins, who is now retired. “I
don’t know if it is the same lady
or not. It could have been the
same person and I wondered the
same thing.”
He saw Angela Hancock’s
photo in an Atlanta newspaper
after the Gainesville slayings ggt
didn’t rec%nize the woman,
Blevins said, but noted that it
was a number of years ago when
a woman named Angela
Hancock taught briefly at Trion.
The former principal said he
thought the Mrs. Hancock
taught either social studies or
business while at Trion.
DESTROYED
Trion school records prior
to the spring, 1990 were de
stroyed in that year’s huge flood
so no written information about
a Mrs. Hancock is on file in the
superintendent’s office, said Don
Elam, Trion school superinten
dent.
Angela Hancock could not
be found immediatelr after the
slayings, the Hall County
Sheriffgs Office indicated.
DESCRIPTION
She had left her home in a
1986 model car after the shots
were fired and was described as
being 52", weighing 125 to 135
pounds, having blue eyes and
shoulder-length brown hair. She
left her home wearing a red H]aid
shirt and green camoutflage
pants, lawmen said late this past
week.
A Hall County Magistrate
Court judFe refused to release
her on bail Saturday morning.
MONDAY
Officials said she is sched
uled to return to the Hall County
Courthouse next Monday to de
termine if her case should go be
fore a Grand Jury.
Plan For Drought
In Gardens Again
By WAYNE McLAURIN
Georgia Extension Service
Much of Georgia found rain
fall scarce last summer and fall
and even this winter. So garden
ers need to plan ahead and make
sure their iardens have plenty of
moisture this year.
Most garden plants could
benefit from a deep watering ev
ery week, according to the soil
type they're growing in. Some
plants will need even closer at
tention. :
Newly planted plants, for
instance, may have limited root
systems. The March and April
winds can dry seedlings out in
just a few hours. Remember, too,
that the larger the leaf on the
plant, the greater the water loss.
It’s best to water deeply oc
casionally, rather than with fre
quent shallow sprinklings. Apply
1 to 1.5 inches of water around
the root zone of the plant.
Be aware that the roots may
_sl%read farther than you think.
e size of the root system var
ies with the species, its age and
the soil conditions. In d%;eneral,
though, the roots extend beyond
officials wanted to make any
changes.
Some of the ideas presented
in the past for the project include
control flooding problems and
connecting the county’s various
water systems.
ONLY COUNTY
Chattooga is the only single
county in the state to be selected
to receive a Project Impact grant.
Previous selections have in
volved multiple counties at one
time.
Police, GBI Nab 9 Suspects
On Drug Sale Charges Here
from front page
Highland Avenue, Hankins
Drive, Vines Street and 6th
Street. The GBI made additional
sales at the Lake Wanda Reita
Apartments, just north of the
Summerville ci?' limits.
“Three or four of those we
arrested I would consider to be
major dealers and the others
were just runners,” Det. Prince
said. “Runners are people just
sellir}fi,it (drugs) for someone
else. They get a share of the prof
its.”
Although the undercover
purchases befian in July, 1999, it
was not until last week when the
police and GBI decided to cap
ture and arrest the nine suspects.
EASY ARREST
The first person spotted and
arrested by Summerville was
Dan Price, 47, of 1111 Peach Or
chard Road. According to Prince,
officers got off to a “lucky” start
because as they were traveling
toward Hifihland Avenue, Price
was spotted walking down Com
merce Street. He was arrested for
two counts of possessir:ig more
than an ounce of illegal rugz.
Another dealer was not be as
easily apprehended, Prince said.
A juvenil%, who sold drugs to an
undercover ggent earlierin 1999,
ran from officers Friday after
noon.
CHASE
Summerville Lt. Tim
Fulmer said it was about a 300-
yard chase throufih a housing
pr?'ect comglexbe ore he caught
and arrested the juvenile.
Others arrested in %pera
tion Street Swee%include :
* Tomareo Shawn Perry, 20,
of 601 Highland Ave., Summer
ville, who was charged with sale
of an imitation controlled sub
stance and sale within a 1,000
feet of a public housing project.
PROJECT
* Olympia Brooks, 43, of 74
Hawkins Drive, Summerville,
who was arrested for sellini of
cocaine, possession of more than
an ounce of drugs and possession
of drugs near a public housing
project.
* Kelby Powell, 27, (no ad
dress given by sheriff’s office),
who was charged on two counts
of possessing more than an
ounce of drugs, two counts of
possessing illegal drugs near a
public housing project and dis
tribution of an imitation con
trolled substance.
* Angela Ethn’dfie, 44,0 f 28
West St., Summerville, who was
the drié) line, an imaginary circle
around the plant at the widest
spread. Cantaloupes, for ex
ample, can have a root system 12
to 14 feet in diameter.
Drip or trickle irrigation is
the best method for gardens.
They use 50 percent less water
than conventional watering
means.
They place the water at the
root zone, too, so the plant can
take it up more efficiently. They
won't wet the leaves, either. The
drier you keep the plant foliage,
the fewer disease problems you'll
have.
For newly established ;])lants
and shallow-rooted plants
(which most vegetables are),
mulch can be helpful. It not only
conserves soil moisture, but
helps keep weeds from ¢hoking
the plant.
Apply mulch after the plants
are esta%fished and the soil has
warmed u‘p. If you apl)ly it too
early it will keep the soil cool and
slow the plants’ growth.
FREE
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Chattooga County will hold a public hearing on Thursday, March 2, 2000
at 11:00 a.m. in the courtroom at the courthouse annex in Summerville,
Georgia. The purpose of the hearing will be to discuss the closeout of the
County's FY-97 Community Development Block Grant project. The project
involved a $477,376 grant to the County from the Georgia Department of
Community Affairs to construct a building to house a literacy center and
the Community Action Agency. The grant was awarded April 11, 1998.
The public is invited to attend the meeting to become informed of the
County's grant accomplishments and to present comments.
This naotice is also published to notify the public of the availability of the
final quarterly report to Chattooga County citizens and to welcome com
ments about performance in regard to the grant.
Persons with special needs relating to handicapped accessibility or for
eign language may contact Ms. Martha Latta at (706) 857-0700 prior to
4 p.m. February 28, 2000 at the commissioners’ office between 8:30 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.
Service is provided for the hearing impaired in the form of special tele
phone numbers (TDD number) available through the Georgia Relay Service
at 1-800-255-0056.
In accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended,
Chattooga County does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in the admin
istration or operation of its programs.
arrested for sale of cocaine and
possession of more than an
ounce of druas,.
* Carla Williams, 27, of 42
University Circle, Summerville,
who was charged on two counts
of possessing cocaine.
MANY COUNTS
» Pol(l{y Darden, 31, of 128
Woodlan edAfve., Summerville,
was arrested for ing more
than an ounce o} drugs, possess
ing illegal drugs near a public
housinf project, possessing
drug-related objects, possessing
an imitation controlled sub
stance and the sale of an imita
tion controlled substance.
* Clemmie Williams, 35, of
46 Magllewood Drive, Summer
ville, who was charged with pos
sessing cocaine and selling co
caine.
ROADBLOCK ;
Officers conducting a road
block at the intersection of
Hawkins Drive and Vine Street
Friday also caught two men on
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drug charges who were not con
nected with “Operation Drug
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Hamilton Road, Cfiattanooga,
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