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Videos: Litigation Executive Session, Lighting Ordinance, Drainage, Well, Trash, Software, Trucks @ LCC 2018-03-26



An

Executive Session for pending or potential litigation:
are they going to sue Deep South Sanitation again?
Some of them sure seem to want to find any excuse
not to re-approve

DSS’s franchise, which was the longest item at three minutes.

Second longest was two minutes for the

Bid for Mini Excavator for the Utilities Department.
Slow morning at the County Commission.

Below are links to each LAKE video with a very few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
agenda.
They vote this evening at 5:30 PM. Continue reading →

Lighting Ordinance, Drainage, Well, Trash, Software, Trucks @ LCC 2018-02-26

The
Street Lighting Ordinance
on
the agenda for this morning and tomorrow evening
is not among those on the

County Ordinances web page.
How are we to
“Know the Laws”, as the link from the county’s front page says,
when unknown ordinances keep popping up?
Ah, it’s currently
a resolution and they want to make it an ordinance.


Lighting-ordinance-agenda-sheet-0001,

The

agenda sheet says
“For
reference, copies of maps Continue reading →

Videos: regional T-SPLOST tabled, Trash disposal renewals, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-28

They

tabled T-SPLOST until their next meeting
because they got a complaint from the Chamber about process,
and also from others.
Remember, even if it gets on the ballot, it can still be voted down again, like in 2012.


Meanwhile, John Stephen, VDT, 7 April 2017,
T-SPLOST headed for referendum,

Even though the Lowndes County Commission delayed a vote on the
regional T-SPLOST at its last meeting due to local confusion on the
one-penny sales tax, enough counties in the area now support the tax
(10 out of 18 were needed) to move it forward to a public vote even
without the commission’s approval.

In the coming weeks, a regional roundtable of government
representatives will determine Continue reading →

Videos: Trash disposal renewals, regional T-SPLOST, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-27



More than four minutes yesterday morning on

Residential Solid Waste Franchise Renewal: maybe it’s still contentious
because they still don’t have a good model.
Maybe not everybody wants to have their trash picked up at the end of their
driveway like they lived in town.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, and they agreed
add an agenda item amending the ordinance to change insurance requirement from $5 million to $1 million.
As of this writing at 8AM, they have not yet changed their online agenda.
We’ll see how it eventually changes from

the agenda already blogged.

They spent more than three minutes on

Regional T-SPLOST; follow the link for details.
Another
Lift Station Pump

lift station pump
needs replacing
And

Dasher wants the county to maintain a couple of dirt streets.

Below are links to each LAKE video, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.
See also the agenda. Continue reading →

Trash disposal renewals, regional T-SPLOST, another lift station pump, Dasher Streets @ LCC 2017-03-27


Regional T-SPLOST is on the agenda this morning.


Back in 2012 we all voted down a statewide T-SPLOST (Transportation Special Sales Tax).

As we learned at the

February Lowndes County Commission Planning Session Day 2,
on 28 February 2017 in Waycross there was a “public hearing” about a possible regional T-SPLOST.
When I asked SGRC about that, they sent the Waycross agenda, saying
“This is
not a public meeting and was not advertised as such, however it is open
to the public.”
Apparently something happened at that meeting, since T-SPLOST is on the
Lowndes County Commission agenda now, with this in the attached document:

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: According to House Bill 170, counties within a Regional
Commission District have the option to institute a Regional T-SPLOST. The Georgia
Department of Transportation is requesting action to be taken by April 1, 2017, either in
favor of or opposed to a Regional T-SPLOSI’. If ten (10) of the eighteen (18) regional
counties fail to get support for a Regional T-SPLOST, then individual counties can initiate an
independent T-SPLOST’.

.

After Lowndes County spent unknown hundreds of thousands of dollars suing Continue reading →

GA Supreme Court rules against Deep South Sanitation: DSS vows to keep going



Lowndes County suing a local business with our tax dollars
has produced a preliminary Georgia Supreme
Court ruling overturning the appeals court and favoring
the county’s “exclusive franchise” with ADS, a company owned
by New York City investors.
Local company Deep South Sanitation vows to keep going.

Do you think this lawsuit is a good use of your tax dollars?
What will you think if ADS’ rates go up from Veolia’s bid of $13.05/month
($156.60/year) just before ADS bought Veolia,
to ADS’s bid of $13.39/month ($220.68/year)? Continue reading →

Videos of the landfill gas energy meeting 2013-04-15



Since LAKE was the only coverage of the

Pecan Row Landfill Gas Energy meeting 15 April 2013 at Colquitt EMC in Valdosta,
these videos let you see the interesting cast of speakers and other attendees.





Our host,

Danny Nichols, Colquitt EMC General Manager, expressed concerns about
feel-good vs. economically viable energy projects and said he
thought the landfill gas project was both, emphasizing “like a
switch it comes on”, in other words, baseload.
(Colquitt EMC is

not big on smart grid.)

Continue reading →

Atlanta trash and TVA coal ash to be shipped to Lowndes County?



Did you know we already have coal ash in our Lowndes County landfill?

And where will the trash come from for that landfill gas project,
subject of

the meeting 8:30 AM tomorrow morning at the Colquitt EMC office in Valdosta?
Atlanta, or even farther north (or south)?
And what will be in it: coal ash like Taylor County’s landfill,
with arsenic and lead?

As we’ve seen,

GreenPower EMC’s previous two landfill gas projects seem to be in Taylor
County, Georgia.
What none of GreenPower, ESG, ADS, or Colquitt EMC seem to have mentioned
is that much of the trash in the landfill in Mauk, Taylor County,
between Machon and Columbus,
appears to come from farther north.

Jeffry Scott wrote for the AJC 24 October 2003,

MAKING ROOM FOR GARBAGE: Landfill battles pile up: Rural areas targeted for urban trash,

Continue reading →

Green Power EMC landfill gas projects



As

we saw,
ESG’s Pecan Row Landfill Gas Facility flash flyer
quotes Jeff Pratt, President of Green Power EMC, who said this is Green Power
EMC’s third landfill energy project.
Curiously, Green Power EMC’s Landfill Gas Project page doesn’t
list the other two, and its
FAQ is apparently out of date, saying “Currently, our one landfill gas-to-electricity projects generate a combined four megawatts of power.”
However, the other two appear to be:

Continue reading →

Landfill gas energy meeting Monday morning


Pecan Row Landfill Gas Facility

Received Friday as a PDF. -jsq

Valdosta, Ga. (April 11, 2013) — Representatives from

Advanced Disposal,

Green Power EMC and

Energy Systems Group (ESG) will hold an informational
session about the Pecan Row Landfill Gas Facility on April 15 at 8:30 a.m. EST
at the

Colquitt EMC Valdosta District Office, located at 273 Norman Drive.

The cover page seems to be condensed from
ESG’s Pecan Row Landfill Gas Facility flash flyer.
That ESG flyer also quotes Gerald Allen, Landfill Vice President , Advanced Disposal, and Jeff Pratt, President of Green Power EMC, who said this is Green Power
EMC’s third landfill energy project.

The rest past the paragraph above quoted seems to be verbatim from Continue reading →