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Health & Fitness

Hard Labor Creek Reservoir Groundbreaking Planned

The Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir Management Board has decided to hold an official reservoir groundbreaking ceremony at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 4 at or near the reservoir intake construction site on Social Circle-Fairplay Road in Walton County.

Invited guests will include Gov. Nathan Deal, though Project Manager Jimmy Parker told me on Wednesday that the governor’s office has asked that the governor’s attendance not be included in any formal press releases.

Parker said the governor’s office has confirmed the Oct. 4 date, but “his schedule is always subject to change in case of emergencies.”

The Management Board spent nearly half of its regular meeting on Tuesday at the Walton County Government Building in Monroe talking about the groundbreaking ceremony. It agreed to hire an event planner to help Parker manage the activity.

During the part of the meeting open to the general public, the Board heard updates on relocation of roadways and of the Georgia Transmission Corporation’s power lines. The Board went into executive session to discuss land acquisition matters after the public meeting, which lasted just less than 70 minutes.

Project Manager Parker told the Board that 99 percent of the land for the project is acquired or under contract, including all of the land needed for the reservoir pool itself.

For more on this story, with video clips from the meeting, go to Oconee County Observations.

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