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Volunteer Group Reported Low Levels Of E. Coli Bacteria In Oconee County's Calls Creek
The creek has had an unknown number of discharges from the sewer plant of inadequately treated wastewater over an unspecified period.
Oconee County citizens and officials got some good news yesterday regarding the county’s Calls Creek wastewater treatment plant.
The Upper Oconee Watershed Network, a volunteer group dedicated to protecting water resources in the Upper Oconee basis, reported that its sampling of Calls Creek at two locations downstream from the plant on Saturday showed relatively low levels of the potentially dangerous E. coli bacteria.
This was the case despite an unknown number of discharges from the plant into Calls Creek of inadequately treated wastewater over an unspecified period of time and a documented spill of untreated sewage into the creek on May 29.
A UOWN sampling of water at the plant itself showed it producing at the time the two samples were drawn on Saturday morning water completely without the E. coli bacteria, which is what is required by federal standards for drinking water.
For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: Calls Creek At Hickory Hill Drive.