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Page 8, July 29, 2019, The Islander
JWSC consent order
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In an email to all staff on July 25,
Burroughs thanked them for their
hard work to bring the systems back
into compliance and for their contin
ued efforts to assure this will not hap
pen again.
Finance and facilities
committee meetings committee
The JWSC finance and facilities
committees met last week (July 24),
but due to lack of a quorum the regu
lar commission meeting was not held.
During the public portion of the fi
nance committee meeting Cameron
Owens spoke to the committee and
said he owned acreage at Exit 38 &
1-95 and that the lack of sewer capac
ity out there “almost cost us a deal.”
He asked the JWSC to help get ad
equate sewer capacity to the area to
keep up with the pace of development
there.
The finance committee approved
but reduced staffs budget request for
basin expansion in that same area.
The utility has two comprehensive
agreements for expansion work as
sociated with the Bergen Woods de
velopment and Wade Jurney Homes’
Saddlebrook development that will
increase sewer capacity for these
Entities in Georgia’s six coastal comi
ties are continuing a joint battle against
the nation’s number one most littered
item: cigarette butts. Providing compre
hensive coverage of Georgia’s coastal
area, Tybee Clean Beach Volunteers,
the City of Tybee Island, Keep Savan
nah Beautiful, Keep Mchitosh Beautiful,
Keep Camden Beautiful, UGA Marine
Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, Keep
Golden Isles Beautiful, Keep Liberty
Beautiful, Ogeechee Riverkeeper, Fort
McCallister State Park and Crooked
River State Park have again united in
a coast-wide cigarette litter awareness
educational initiative: Georgia’s Coast is
Not an Ashtray.
Made of cellulose acetate, a type of
plastic, cigarette butts do not easily bio
degrade. Discarded butts have a negative
impact as land litter, but once blown into
storm drains or tossed directly into water
sources, this toxic litter becomes marine
debris, leaching chemicals into marine
and aquatic environments and potential
ly being ingested by those inhabitants.
With coastal Georgia’s proximity to the
Atlantic Ocean as well as its abundance
of streams, rivers, lakes, creeks, salt
and freshwater marshes and ponds, the
coast-wide initiative focuses on cigarette
butts in relation to water bodies.
Funded by a $10,000 Keep America
Beautiful cigarette litter prevention pro
gram grant, the latest initiative consists
of cigarette waste receptacle placement,
radio public service announcements, so
cial media/video promotion, educational
outreach, drink coaster outreach and
pocket/car ash tray distribution. The
combined two-year effort results in a to
tal of 142 public space receptacles placed
in coastal Georgia.
While simultaneous project-specific
outreach activities will occur in all six
coastal counties during the effort, com
munity-specific outreach activities are
developments.
When the Wade Jurney agreement
was presented, staff told the JWSC
that additional capacity above what
Wade Jurney’s expansion would pro
vide would be needed for expected fu
ture development as well as half of the
flow from the Tradewinds Industrial
Park when it’s developed.
Staff asked for a budget of $2.2
million but the finance committee
approved $1,465 million. The project
scope of $2.2 million was approved by
the facilities committee at their July
11 meeting.
Commissioners Ben Turnipseed
and finance chair Commissioner Steve
Copeland wanted to hold back on in
cluding the 12 inch force main in the
budget.
Commissioner Tripp Stephens
wanted “real” numbers through an
engineering design before approving
the budget.
Turnipseed disagreed saying, “We
need to open the area for development
and the only way to do that is to ear
mark the funds.”
The committee voted to approve
the $1,465 million which will come
from the Capital Improvement Fund
Reserve and the Repair and Replace
ment Reserve.
At their meeting on Thursday (July
24) the facilities committee approved
encouraged as well.
For more Georgia’s Coast is Not an
Ashtray program info, contact: Keep
Golden Isles Beautiful, info.kbgib@gmail.
com or 912-279-1490 or log onto georgias-
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awarding the engineering contract for
this same project to Roberts Civil En
gineering for $65,000.
Turnipseed told facilities commit
tee members that the scope of the
project had been changed during the
finance committee meeting since “the
Tradewinds development was not
moving as fact as we thought but the
design needs to be done.”
The finance committee also ap
proved the Altama CIPP (cured in
place pipe) project. There are multiple
gravity sewer crossings under Altama
Avenue that are old and need repair.
Staff has concerns about cleaning
and televising these lines without by
pass pumping in place so the request
ed budget of $625,000 for this project
includes bypass pumping.
The finance committee also ap
proved $300,000 budget for roof re
placement to the Academy Creek
building which houses JWSC
inventory.
The facilities committee received
an update from Interim Executive
Director Andrew Burroughs on the
Academy Creek rehab project.
Burroughs said staff had met with
five vendors who currently provide
equipment for the Academy Creek
Wastewater Treatment Plant and,
Burroughs said, “We have options
for filter, screening and odor control
equipment.”
Construction on the Academy
Creek water pollution rehab project is
expected to start summer 2020.
Hand in Hand
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the permitting process would include
consideration by the Brunswick City
Planning and Appeals Commission,
followed by the full City Commission.
The Planning and Appeals Com
mission would hold a public hearing
and consider the permit, then make
a recommendation to the City Com
mission. The City Commission would
then also hold a public hearing and
approve, deny or defer the permit.
Permit applications must be re
ceived by the city 20 days prior to the
Planning and Appeals Commission
meeting. The next Planning and Ap
peals Commission meeting is sched
uled for Aug. 14, 2019, and any ap
plicants who have not yet filed permit
applications have missed the deadline
for that meeting.
The next opportunity for appli
cations will be 20 days prior to the
Planning and Appeals Commission
meeting slated for Sept. 11, 2019. The
Planning and Appeals Commission
has 65 days to consider permit appli
cations after its meeting.
Because of this timeline, the earli
est any permit applicant would be able
to appear before the full City Commis
sion would be Oct. 2, 2019.
The City Commission has sched
uled a Town Hall meeting for Thurs
day, August 1, 6 p.m. in Old City Hall,
to receive citizens’ comments and con
cerns regarding Harper’s Joy.
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