The purposes of the public meeting are to:

1. Inform the public of the need for improvements to the City’s wastewater system.

2. To comply with Section 391-3-6-02 of Georgia’s Water Quality Control

Rules (and amendments thereto).

3. To encourage public involvement in the development of a plan to improve

the wastewater system.

The public meeting will attempt to identify public preferences for alternative

methods of improving the City’s wastewater facilities. These alternatives will

be evaluated and included in the City’s Facilities Plan and Environmental Information

document, the major planning document covering the wastewater

system.

Public participation is considered essential to the selection and development

of the final plan to be adopted prior to its approval by the State of Georgia,

Department of Natural Resources.

Please submit written comments to Mayor Michael Garvin at 310 Central

Avenue, P.O. Box 99, Guyton, GA, 31312, no later than the close of business on

Friday, January 6, 2012.

Ogeechee Riverkeeper comments will be ready to view by Friday morning.

Click Here for information from Guyton City records.

Environmental Information Document for Guyton

Jefferson County citizens have met with North Star officials to discuss the plant.  Ogeechee Riverkeeper has made comments to EPD and we hope that EPD will hold a public hearing to offer citizens a chance to make comments and ask questions.  ORK will post any new information on this facility on our website and on our Facebook page.  Please contact ORK with any questions 866-942-6222 ext 3 for Dianna Wedincamp.

North Star permit application can be viewed by clicking here.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that citizens attend the next Bryan County Commissioners meeting in Richmond Hill.  Help ORK spread the word and bring the whole family.  We can't leave a legacy of pollution for our kids and their kids. 

December 13, 2011 - Bryan County Commisioners meeting, Richmond Hill Annex, 5:30pm

For more information contact Dianna Wedincamp, 866-942-6222.

October 2011 Update: Citizens met at Black Creek Church to gather information on the proposed landfill by Atlantic Waste.  Don Stack from Stack and Associates was there to inform the citizens about the threats to the enironment and how to proceed going forward.

There are two meeting the citizens need to attend to make comments:

November 3rd - citizens need to be at the Bryan County Planning and Zoning in Pembroke at the Court House Anex at 7:00pm to voice your appinion about the text admendment. 

November 15 - Citizens need to be at the Board of Commissioners meeting at the DIxie Harn Building on Lanier Street in Pembroke at 6:30pm.  

For more information contact Bryan County Planning and Zoning office at 912-756-3177. 

March 2011 Update:  The proposed landfill in Northern Bryan County by Atlantic Waste continues to build strong opposition.  At a meeting held at Black Creek Church on Monday night, March 28th, the crowd was standing room only with very vocal opponents of the landfill filling up the room and spilling outside.

ORK has completed an initial technical review of the potential site suitability issues with this proposed landfill.  We submitted the letter to the Bryan County Commissioners, the Planning and Zoning Commission, and the City of Pembroke this week.  You may view the technical memo and other documents in our library.

Ogeechee Riverkeeper is reviewing the proposed permit materials--thanks to GreenLaw for getting the info for us. 

You may review the file here.

Comment deadline is July 16, 2010. 

To submit comments, send a letter to the Air Protection Branch, 4244 International Parkway, Atlanta Tradeport - Suite 120, Atlanta, Georgia 30354.

We will post our comments by July 16. 

In the Upper Ogeechee area, Shaw Airforce Base has issued a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for its proposal to lower the military training airspace over Georgia.

Ogeechee Riverkeeper is currently reviewing this proposal to determine what impacts this could have on the river system and will post our comments by the end of July. 

Public comments should be directed to Ms. Linda DeVine, ATI EIS Project Manager, HQ ACC/A7PS, 129 Andrews Street, Suite 337, Langley AFB, VA 23665-2769. Telephone inquiries may be made to Shaw AFB Public Affairs at 803-895-2019.

Ogeechee Riverkeeper just learned of this spill from an anynonymous caller.  The amount of sewage spilled is quite significant.  Dianna Wedincamp, Program Director, visited the area and found this sign posted on private property.

The signage erroneously states that the spill was a "minor" spill.  Under Georgia regulations, a spill in excess of 10,000 gallons is a major sewage spill. 

Ogeechee Riverkeeper is now monitoring the area to test for harmful bacteria that may still exist as a result of this spill and the repeated failures of the sewage treatment plant. 

We should have more details available by June 20, 2010.  Until then you can view the other documented sewage problems with this site.

Excessive nutrients from sewage can cause algae blooms, like this one pictured on the Canoochee River.

Ogeechee Riverkeeper reviewed the results and determined that the analysis conducted by EPD was fatally flawed due to the agency's failure to account for nitrogen pollution in all of its forms. 

Ogeechee Riverkeeper believes that if this permit is issued as drafted, the sewage plant will add significant amounts of nutrients virtually unchecked into this vulnerable coastal area--potentially resulting in a reduction in fish and shellfish habitat, and unsightly alage blooms, similar to the Chesepeake Bay.

Ogeechee Riverkeeper sent a memo outlining our concerns on this issue to the Liberty County Development Authority.

Reports from the Coastal Courier indicate the spills have been stopped and the City will be required to conduct monitoring.

Peacock Canal empties into the Medway River system and goes out into St. Catherine's Sound.  We will monitor the cleanup and monitoring efforts next week and report back here.