Oconee County Sewer Expansion The lawsuit is for cancellation again | Greenville News
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Oconee County Sewer Expansion The lawsuit is for cancellation again | Greenville News

Walhalla – Eleven months after submitting his mood, Oconee County residents who competed for a bond of $ 25 million for sewage extension back in court to hear the county’s latest argument to Get the atmosphere dismissed.

Their lawyer, Jim Carpenter, told the circuit judge Lawton Mcintosh that he heard nothing new since the August decision where Mcintosh denied Oconee County’s Proposal for dismissal.

The mood was submitted in March 2024 after County Council December 2023 Approval of a bond of $ 25 million, which, in addition to other capital projects, finance a sewage expensation in the southern part of the county.

When Carpenter claimed in August that his clients do not compete for the bond, only its potential use to finance a project that does not benefit the entire county, Mcintosh was united and denied the county’s proposal to reject.

One of the county’s lawyers admitted that they would come in with a difficult position to argue for the same case before the same judge.

“We have nothing but the greatest respect for both this court and your honor,” said lawyer Lane Davis in his opening on January 30. “It has been said, we believe that the order issued in this case in August – granting the preliminary order and denied our proposal to reject – was affected by some errors we ask the court to go over and rethink.”

Davis claimed that the sewage project would benefit the entire county with environmental protection for Lake Hartwell, economic development and the total tax base.

Carpenter told Mcintosh that he got the first time and said that facts in the case have not changed since the parties sat in the same courtroom in Walhalla five months ago. The state constitution that the states also does not have a county cannot issue bonds for the disposal of sewage that benefits part of the county without a special tax assessment.

“It’s only $ 25 million they received, and if they will spend $ 25 million in line with the Constitution or in violation of the Constitution,” Carpenter said. “And that’s what this case is about.”

Mcintosh said he would review all documents submitted and case law before making a decision. He did not offer a timeline for a decision.