Jackson County Water & Sewer Authority

Jackson County Water & Sewer Authority Drinking Water Report Info
The JCWSA was made as a political subdivision of the State of Georgia by a demonstration of the Georgia General Assembly in 1986 to encourage giving water and sewer administration to residents of Jackson County. The JCWSA is represented by a 5-part top managerial staff, every one of whom must dwell in Jackson County, and each is named by the leading body of commissioners of Jackson County. Individuals serve amazed 3-year terms without pay for a period not to surpass 9-years. An Authority part can not be reappointed after 3 sequential terms without in any event one year of latent status. Right now, the board individuals are: Dylan Wilbanks, Chairman Pat Bell, Vice-Chair Christopher Nichols Don Clerici Jim Smith Our board individuals from years past are recorded here: Board Members. The JCWSA works as an autonomous political subdivision of the state, like regions and urban communities in Georgia. Nonetheless, the Authority is anything but an exhausting element and in this way works as a venture, which means it works exclusively off of the incomes from water and sewer billings and expenses. Previously, the JCWSA received a level of the Special Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) dollars from Jackson County. SPLOST dollars were utilized solely for enormous water undertakings including transmission lines, huge mains, water towers and siphoning stations. At the end of the 2011 schedule year, the Authority never again got any segment of SPLOST. With the voter section of SPLOST #6 in March of 2016, the Authority will by and by get a level of the one percent duty and keep on tending to water needs in Jackson County. Subtleties of endorsed water activities might be found through the accompanying connection: SPLOST #6 Project Booklet For extra data, it would be ideal if you go visit our Past Projects and Milestones area. Your Water. Where Does It Come From? Most of water provided by the JCWSA is acquired from the Bear Creek Reservoir and Water Treatment Plant. The 505-section of land repository is situated in outrageous southwest Jackson County. This water is siphoned into the neighboring water plant where the water is molded and sifted, after which it is chlorinated and siphoned into JCWSA's framework prepared for use. The Bear Creek Reservoir and Treatment Plant is claimed and worked by the Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority (UOBWA), a free political subdivision of the State of Georgia. There are (4) areas that claim a portion of the supply and (3) regions that possess a portion of the treatment plant: Resevoir Treatment Plant Athens-Clarke Jackson Jackson Barrow Barrow Oconee Oconee Jackson a lot of the store is 25%; a lot of the treatment plant is 43.9%. Inquiries on local laws or explicit strategies and methods of the UOBWA ought to be coordinated toward the Northeast Georgia Regional Development Center in Athens at (706) 369-5650 or www.bearcreekwtp.com. The JCWSA can, and does every once in a while, buy treated water from the City of Commerce at northeast Jackson County. This is done essentially in light of levels of popularity on the framework, for example, water primary breaks or other unexpected conditions. When the treated water is in our framework, it is conveyed all through the majority of unincorporated Jackson County. In explicit territories it must be re-siphoned at one of our few promoter stations so the water weight can be kept up at the higher heights inside the county. By and large the JCWSA doesn't supply water to numerous urban areas in the county since these urban communities have their very own water frameworks, they being Jefferson, Commerce, Braselton, Maysville and Nicholson. The JCWSA can furnish these networks with water when the need emerges.