08/31/2022
FUNDS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST SALACOA, PINE LOG CREEK RESIDENTS WITH SEPTIC SYSTEM REPAIRS: Financial assistance is available to assist residents and landowners who reside in the Salacoa and Pine Log Creek Watersheds — parts of Gordon, Bartow, Pickens, and Cherokee counties — with septic system repairs through a grant held by the Limestone Valley Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council.
Funding assistance covers a certain percentage of the total septic system repair or replacement. Areas generally eligible include lands that drain to Salacoa and Pine Log Creeks.
The septic repair program is in place because failing systems tend to leach high bacteria effluent 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 water quality in local streams.
Funding is provided by a Clean Water Act grant from Georgia Environmental Protection Division and administered by the Limestone Valley RC&D Council, a local, community-based non-profit organization.
Local contractors will provide septic system repairs with technical assistance provided by the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Environmental Health Division. Financial assistance will be considered and implemented with respect to private property rights and under voluntary landowner participation only.
For more information about this grant or to see if you are eligible, please email Salacoa Creek 319 Grant Coordinator Steve Mertz at [email protected] or call 762-219-1761.
