Columbia County and the city of Grovetown are poised to enter an agreement for the city to facilitate sewer line exchange.
The Public Works and Engineering Services Committee, chaired by Columbia County Commissioner Gary Richardson, convened Tuesday morning and voted to put an intergovernmental agreement between the county and Grovetown on the consent agenda of next Tuesday’s Board of Commissioners meeting.
According to the agreement, Grovetown would transfer ownership of more than 2,600 feet connecting to Mill Branch extension and extending upstream to the existing metering manhole at Milton Hitt Road to the county.
In turn, Columbia County would give the city possession of the Euchee Creek sewer line, over 3,000 feet, from the metering manhole upstream to the one located at the Grovetown Elementary School property. The transfer would include all easement and access rights the county has to the sewer line.
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The city of Grovetown is to pay Columbia County more than $59,000 for this exchange, representing the difference in value of the sewer lines. The agreement also
Residents of the Euchee Creek subdivision are to remain customers of the Columbia County Water Utility. Once the city installs its proposed Euchee Creek pump station near the existing metering manhole on the Euchee Creek sewer main, Columbia County is to pay Grovetown for wastewater treatment services provided for the subdivision’s residents.
The document notes the completion of Grovetown’s Waste Water Treatment Plant as an impetus for the agreement, as well as the establishing of wholesale billing rates for water treatment for Euchee Creek, Georgia Iron Works and Bearing Distributors.
The county is also looking to secure acquisition services for the Hereford Farm Road widening project. In the same meeting, the committee voted in favor to hire Colliers Engineering for property acquisitions, at approximately $2,400 per parcel. Payment for the services are to initially come out of transportation special purpose local option sales tax (TSPLOST) funds, reimbursed by the Georgia Department of Transportation.
Both items are on the consent agenda for the Columbia County Board of Commissioner’s Dec. 6 meeting.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
