Funds still to assist Salacoa Creek area residents with septic system repairs | Local

Financial assistance continues to be available to assist residents and landowners living in Salacoa Creek Watershed – parts of Gordon, Bartow, Pickens, and Cherokee counties – repair sewage treatment plants through a grant from the Limestone Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council.

The financial aid covers a certain percentage of the repair of septic systems.

Please visit the Limestone Valley RC&D website at limestonevalley.org/septic or call the number below to verify your eligibility for a septic system repair. Generally eligible areas include lands that flow into Salacoa Creek.

The program to repair failing wastewater treatment plants in the area is in place as failing systems tend to seep high levels of bacterial discharges into groundwater, runoff and eventually surface waters, which can lead to increased risk to human health.

This program is part of a larger initiative to improve the quality of water in local streams.

Funding is provided through a Clean Water Act grant from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division and administered by the Limestone Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council, a local, community-based not-for-profit organization.

Local contractors will perform septic tank repairs with technical assistance from the Georgia Division of Public Health. Financial support will only be considered and implemented with a view to private property rights and with the voluntary participation of landowners.

For more information about this scholarship or to determine if you are eligible, please call or email Salacoa Creek 319 Grant Coordinator Hunter Terrell at 706-383-3462 or [email protected].