Summerville Public Works installing waterline on Filter Plant Road

The City of Summerville announced on Monday that the carbon filter system that was slated to be installed at the Raccoon Creek Water Treatment Plant has been delayed.  The city didn’t give a reason for the delay other than to say that, “The engineers have updated the previously provided date of the week of September 21st to October 8th. The goal is to complete the installation within 3-5 days of starting installation.  Once the filters are installed, samples will be collected and tested for the presence of PFOA/PFOS.”

In addition to the carbon filtration system, the city is working to lay several miles of water line to connect drilled wells to the water treatment plant on Filter Plant Road.  The city updated the progress yesterday saying, “The City of Summerville Public Works has laid 2,000 feet of 16” pipe on Filter Plant Road in preparation for connecting the new well to the City’s water distribution system.  Another delivery of 4,000 feet of 16” pipe is expected by September 1st. With the completion of this additional pipe installation on Filter Plant Road, the City will stop at the intersection of Highway 48 until Georgia DOT has approved plans for the installation of another 12,000 feet of 16” pipe to the City’s production well site off of Highway 48.”

The city says the first test well is producing 600 gallons (the max capacity of the pump used for testing) of water per minute (GPM) at a depth of 364ft.  City officials say that this well will still need to be developed into a production well, and then connected to the City of Summerville water distribution system upon approval from Georgia EPD.

You can find out more from The City of Summerville here.