Update 2025-07-22:
Videos: Appointments to 2 boards, 2 law grants, 2 lift station items, 1 Comp. Plan contract @ LCC Work 2025-07-21.

The Lowndes County Commission this Monday and Tuesday will consider and decide
on many appointments to two boards, and two Juvenile Justice grants.

The county is also outsourcing part of its five-year Comprehensive Plan Update to the Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC), for $30,000.

Collage @ LCC Packet 2025-07-21

Lowndes County is still fixing problems from Hurricane Helene,
this time at the Blue Lake Lift Station.

• In
  September 2016
  they replaced a pump there for no-bid $43,959.
• In
  June 2020
  they did a $71,789 no-bid emergency repair there due to corrosion.
• In
  
  October 2021
  they applied for
  $700,000
  from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
  for
  “Permanent bypass pumps at lift station” for
  Bevel Creek,
  Whitewater,
  Heart road,
  Blue Lake,
  Highway 84,
  and
  Frances Lake,
  as well as
  $300,000
  for “On-Site Crane/ Hoist lift station” for Whitewater, Frances Lake, and Blue Lake,
  all at the recommendation of Carter & Sloope.
• In
  June 2022
  they approved an apparently no-bid agreement with Carter & Sloope:

  “The scope of work at the County’s lift station is two-fold. A permanent bypass pump will be
  installed at the following six (6) lift stations: Bevel Creek, Whitewater, Heart Road, Blue Lake,
  Highway 84, and Frances Lake. The bypass pump will serve as the station’s
  backup/redundancy method if the primary pumping failed at any time. The new pump will be
  connected to the existing wet well and force main at the station on a concrete housekeeping
  pad. Where necessary based on location, the pump can be installed in an enclosure to reduce
  sound (i.e. if near a residential neighborhood). Electrical and controls will be installed on site
  with the new pump. Of the 6 stations, the following three (3) will also be retrofitted with an on-
  site crane/hoist system: Whitewater, Frances Lake, and Blue Lake. Those stations need a local
  mechanism for retrieving pumps from the wet well because of their layout and location.”

This time they have bids for the control panel,
but still only one no-bid source for the pump: xylem, Inc.
However, the county is going for repairing the pump this time, for $44,661.

It’s good Lowndes County is fixing its sewer infrastructure before it breaks.
And it’s good they’re bidding at least part of the repairs this time.

Meanwhile, we still don’t know where the Blue Lake Lift Station is.
So far as I can tell, there is no waterbody, road or street, or subdivision
name Blue Lake in Lowndes County.
More on that in a later post.

Here is the
agenda.

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request,
is
on the LAKE website.
Images of each page are below.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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