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Sugar Creek sewer main, permit, WWTP –VDT @ VCC 2015-03-19

The VDT has some information apparently from the agenda packet the city didn’t publish with its
agenda for Thursday.
Joe Adgie, VDT, 17 March 2015, City Council to consider revisions to radar ordinance,

Bids will be considered for the sewer main at Sugar Creek near Gornto Road and near the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks.



The sewer main has become exposed due to ongoing steam bank erosion, and the sewer main has started to sag. The city said this exposure needs to be repaired sooner rather than later, as the exposure could lead to a failure, and could allow raw sewage to directly leak into Sugar Creek.

This would be a violation of the city’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit with the state.

The recommended bid comes from Garney Companies, Inc., for $286,000.

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VDT Open Government Symposium: in Macon?

Yay open government symposium!
But why in Macon, why not in Valdosta,


if it’s organized by the new VDT editor?
Sure, Macon is the geographic center of the state, but it’s only
about an hour from Atlanta, and one thing most people in Atlanta don’t
understand is how big Georgia is, so asking them to drive four hours
to Valdosta would be educational for them.
And if the VDT is so interested in government transparency,
why doesn’t it investigate the county’s lawsuit against local business Deep South Sanitation
at the expense of the local taxpayers that benefits nobody but
“exclusive franchise” ADS and its investors in New York City?
Why is the VDT’s front page story that gave a platform for
Spectra’s Andrea Grover no longer online, especially now that
the Sabal Trail deadline she announced has been busted?
Let’s see the VDT lead the way.
Here’s a first test:
Gretchen is going to Macon with the LAKE video camera.
Will the VDT let her video?

Unsigned article, VDT, 11 October 2014,

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On the behalf of the Commission and Citizens of Lowndes County –Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter to FERC about the Sabal Trail methane pipeline



These are the fourteen items he promised

two weeks ago at the SpectraBusters panel at VSU:

Sabal Trail will be expected to adhere and honor all Lowndes County Ordinances –Bill E Slaughter, JR to FERC, 10 April 2014.
I thank Chairman Slaughter for making that statement to FERC.

Despite his apparent refusal to speak on behalf of all the citizens
of the county

after the 24 February 2014 Commission meeting,
he did actually say his ecomment to FERC was
“on the behalf of the Commission and Citizens of Lowndes County”,
and that he expects Sabal Trail to follow all Lowndes County ordinances,
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Car wash, parking, alcohol, and night flights: Videos @ GLPC 2012-10-29



The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission made recommendations on cases
involving buffering a car wash, sizing parking spaces, alcohol at a corner store,
and a development inside the Moody exclusion zone,
all at its 29 October 2012 Regular Session.

Here’s

the agenda,
and here’s

a video playlist,
followed by a summary of the cases.


Regular Session, Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 October 2012.

Valdosta,
Final action
Thursday
8 Nov 2012





2. CU-2012-07 Stafford Properties

1609 Norman Drive, Valdosta

Request for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP for a Car Wash in a Community Commercial C-C zoning district.


Developer from Columbus spoke for.

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Agenda @ GLPC 2012-10-29


GLPC Agenda 2012-10-29
The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) meets tonight.
Here’s the

agenda.

The agenda was

faxed by GLPC Chairman Bill Slaughter
to Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, at her request;
GLPC itself still doesn’t have agendas online, fifteen months after
SGRC stopped posting them.

In his fax cover letter of 23 October 2012, Bill Slaughter noted:


Videos of 30 Club Candidates Forum 2012-10-22

Great Job Last Night!

See You Wed. Evening!


Videos of AAUW Candidates Forum 2012-10-24
Presumably he was referring to her appearance at the

22 October Candidates Forum 30 Club at Serenity Church
and the then-upcoming

24 October Candidates Forum by AAUW at Valdosta High School.
Gretchen Quarterman and Bill Slaughter are the two candidates
for Chairman of the Lowndes County Commission.
You can see LAKE videos of

all four Candidate Forums online.

There is one Valdosta permit case on tonight’s GLPC agenda,
and three rezoning cases, one from Hahira, and two from the county.
I have been transcribing these faxes, but I don’t have time today,
so here’s a brief summary table.

Valdosta,

Final action

Thursday
8 Nov 2012 		2. CU-2012-07 Stafford Properties

1609 Norman Drive, Valdosta

Request for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP for a Car Wash in a Community Commercial C-C zoning district.
Hahira,

Final action

Thursday
1 Nov 2012 		3. HA-2012-01 Gateway Pines

1022 W. Stanfill Street, Hahira

Request for a Variance to Parking Requirement prescribed by Section 7-1.1, 7-4, and 9-3.2 of the Hahira Zoning Ordinance
Lowndes County,

Final action

Tuesday
13 Nov 2012 		4. REZ-2012-16 Cook County Land Ventures

SW corner of Georgia Highway 122 East and Cat Creek Road, Hahira

Request to rezone ~2 acres from E-A (Estate Agriculture) to C-C (Crossroads Commercial)
5. REZ-2012-17 John Henry Davis dba Lowndes Development, LLC

Davidson Road, Valdosta

Request to rezone 23.49 acres from MAZ-II and MAZ-III (Moody Activity Zone)
to R-10 (Suburban Density Residential)

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More concerned about feeding cars than the hungry? —Michael G. Noll

Received Tuesday on Georgia EPD to suspend consideration of some new farm water permit applications 07/30/2012. -jsq

And Southern Company/Georgia Power are still pushing for power plants that waste hundreds of thousands of gallons of water daily (nuclear, biomass)? Water for cooling purposes instead of agriculture? That's about as insane as corn for the production of ethanol instead of feeding people. And how much water do wind mills or solar panels need once they have been installed? About as much as they create problems with air pollution and radioactive waste: zero!

Please note a recent article by George Monbiot on a global crisis caused by investments made in biofuels (e.g. ethanol from corn). To quote from the article (13 August 2012, Hunger Games):

"Already, 40% of US corn (maize) production is used to feed cars(6). The proportion will rise this year as a result of the smaller harvest. Though the market for biodiesel is largely confined to the European Union, it has already captured seven per cent of the world's output of vegetable oil(7). The European Commission admits that its target (10% of transport fuels by 2020) will raise world cereal prices by between 3 and 6%(8). Oxfam estimates that with every 1% increase in the price of food, another 16 million people go hungry."

Where does this leave our "Christian" values as we are obviously more concerned about feeding cars than the hungry?

-Michael G. Noll

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Georgia EPD to suspend consideration of some new farm water permit applications 07/30/2012

In case you had any doubt we’re in serious drought conditions, here’s a PR from GA EPD of 30 July 2012 suspending new agricultural water permits in numerous southwest Georgia counties, as close as Colquitt County, which adjoins Lowndes County.

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The Director of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) has announced that consideration of new applications for agricultural water withdrawal permits in a 24­county area ofsouthwest Georgia will be suspended. The suspension takes effect immediately, but does not apply to applications EPD has already received as of this date.

Map of SW GA suspended water permit regions

Map of SW GA suspended water permit regions

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Concrete flaws at Vogtle delay construction, require modified nuke permit

Concrete sinking into the dirt less than two months after licensing?
One license amendment already requested and dozens more to come?
Does this give you confidence in Southern Company's ability to
build a safe nuclear plant without huge cost overruns charged to
you the Georgia Power customer or you the taxpayer?

In mid-March

the nuclear industry bragged about



Progress continues at the construction site of Plant Vogtle units 3
and 4 — the country's newest reactors and the first to be
licensed since 1978.

We discover that at the end of March Southern Company had to ask
NRC for a licensing change due to construction problems.

Vogtle Nuclear Construction Faces “Additional Delay”
Based on Miscalculations in Foundation Concrete — News Release
from NC WARN and Alliance for Nuclear Accountability—April
9th, 2012,

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Residential home owners of Lowndes County take notice —Vince Schneider @ LCC 14 June 2011

Vince Schneider warned county homeowners that it could happen to them, too:



To permit
the establishment of the Foxborough Avenue McDonalds, the county has
irreversibly established a most terrible precedence. You too can wake
up one morning to find a Fast food store being built in your front
yard.

Like many of us, he wondered what the county government is thinking:

I cannot comprehend how the county can possibly
benefit from allowing such an establishment to be built in a quite
county residential neighborhood. Is it because it provides unskilled
low paying jobs? Will this McDonalds look good on a resume? It was my
understanding that Valdosta and Lowndes County wanted to attract a more
skilled, professional work force. The real estate on Foxborough Avenue
the county permitted McDonalds to build on would have been, and is prime
real estate for just such a professional enterprise….

Good questions.

Here’s

the video:




Residential home owners of Lowndes County take notice —Vince Schneider @ LCC 14 June 2011

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 June 2011.

Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.



After Vince Schneider finished reading his letter,
Chairman Ashley Paulk handed him a paper, which was apparently
a communication from County Engineer Mike Fletcher.

Appended is the text of the letter Vince Schneider read to the Commission.

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Seth Gunning LTE in the VDT

This is the text of Seth Gunning’s letter to the editor that the Valdosta Daily Times printed on 20 Dec 2010. Here’s video of the referenced
air quality permit hearing.
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Recently on Thursday December 16th, State Judge Ronit Walker denied
air quality permits for a proposed coal plant in Sandersville, Georgia.
Judge Walker cited the Georgia Environmental Protection Divisions failure
to properly review permits, and their lack of enforcement of basic Clean
Air Act standards for several hazardous emissions.

Flashback to April 27th in Valdosta Georgia when Environmental Protection
Division Air Branch Manager Eric Cornwell openly admitted to having NOT
READ the air permit application for Wiregrass Biomass LLC’s proposal to
build a hotly contested 40mw power plant&emdash; during a Valdosta EPD hearing
meant to evaluate those permits.

Today, the Valdosta Industrial Authority is hazardously entrenched

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