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 septic tanks through a grant from the Limestone Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council.

Financial aid covers a percentage of septic tank repairs.

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 land flowing into Salacoa Creek.

The program to repair failing wastewater treatment plants in the area is in place as failing systems tend to dissolve high levels of bacterial discharges into groundwater, runoff and ultimately 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, nonprofit organization.

Local contractors will be performing septic tank repairs with technical assistance from the Georgia Division of Public Health. Financial support is only 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 the Salacoa Creek 319 Scholarship Coordinator Hunter Terrell at 706-383-3462 or [email protected].