{"id":5222,"date":"2013-08-19T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:11:26","slug":"7-b-lovell-eng-letter-to-epd-for-lowndes-county-lcc-2013-07-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/7-b-lovell-eng-letter-to-epd-for-lowndes-county-lcc-2013-07-23.html","title":{"rendered":"7.b. Lovell Eng. letter to EPD for Lowndes County @ LCC 2013-07-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9548378408\/sizes\/z\/\" ><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5483\/9548378408_ee71193f5d_m.jpg\" ><\/a><br \/>\nin<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/wastewater-violation-on-the-alapaha-river-lcc-2013-07-22.html\"><br \/>\nthe 22 July 2013 Work Session<\/a><br \/>\nHere is the letter discussed (&#8220;So at this point, in order to comply with the deadline submitted by EPD, it was necessary to go ahead and work with Lovell on this.&#8221;)<br \/>\nand approved (&#8220;The water is good, right?&#8221;)<br \/>\nat the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-water-is-good-now-right-demarcus-marshall-about-alapaha-water-treatment-lcc-2013-07-23.html\"><br \/>\n23 July Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission<\/a>,<br \/>\nobtained through an Open Records Request by April Huntley,<br \/>\nplus a transcription.<br \/>\nYou may wonder, as I do, why the county didn&#8217;t just put it online<br \/>\nalong with the agenda, like so many other county commissions and<br \/>\ncity councils do.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9548378408\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Letter, Lovell Eng. to GA EPD, for Lowndes County\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5483\/9548378408_ee71193f5d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Letter, Lovell Eng. to GA EPD, for Lowndes County\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nTranscription, mostly by<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/tesseract-ocr\/\"><br \/>\nTesseract OCR<\/a>,<br \/>\nwhich even got the misspelling of Joe Pritchard&#8217;s name right.<br \/>\nYou may be wondering, as I am, why the county doesn&#8217;t put such letters<br \/>\non the web with the agenda, and as a parseable PDF instead of as a<br \/>\nscanned image.<br \/>\nI think we all know Jeffry S. Lovell did not compose that letter on a typewriter;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s already in electronic format somewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLovell Engineering Associates, PC<\/p>\n<p>July 24, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Dominique Johnson<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEnvironmental Specialist lll<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGA EPD Drinking Water Program<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWatershed Protection Branch<br \/>\n<br \/>\n2 Martin Luther King Dr. S.E.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSuite 1352 East<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAtlanta, GA 30334<\/p>\n<p>\nThis correspondence serves as notification that Lowndes County has<br \/>\ncompleted evaluation oftreatment alternatives for reducing TTHM\/HAASs at<br \/>\nthe Alapaha Water System. Based on removal efficiency, current operational<br \/>\nexperience, and input from two public stakeholder meetings, the County<br \/>\nhas narrowed down the treatment solution to either a resin treatment<br \/>\ntechnology or a chemical treatment approach.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe County began an eight (8) month treatment study beginning the week of<br \/>\nJuly 15, 2013. The purpose for the extended pilot study is to confirm that<br \/>\nthe treatment process chosen will adequately treat seasonal variations<br \/>\nin raw water quality at the site. Full-scale installation of the chosen<br \/>\ntechnology, process control equipment, and other ancillary improvements<br \/>\nwill be completed by the end of March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\nThank you for your continued assistance in this matter. Please contact<br \/>\nMike Allen (Lowndes County Utilities Director) or myself should you have<br \/>\nquestions or require additional information.<\/p>\n<p>\nSincerely,<\/p>\n<p>\n[signed]<\/p>\n<p>\nJeffry S. Lovell, PE<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLovell Engineering Associates, PC<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>CC:<\/td>\n<td> Joe Prichard&mdash; Lowndes County Manager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Mike Allen&mdash; Lowndes County Utilities Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><small><br \/>\n3998 inner Perimeter Road, Suite C,  P. O. Box 2830, Valdosta, GA 31604, Telephone: 229.253.0900, Fax: 229.253.i842, Email: lea@lea~pt.com<br \/>\n<\/small>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the 22 July 2013 Work Session Here is the letter discussed (&#8220;So at this point, in order to comply with the deadline submitted by EPD, it was necessary to go ahead and work with Lovell on this.&#8221;) and approved (&#8220;The water is good, right?&#8221;) at the 23 July Regular Session of the Lowndes County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,88,3,55],"tags":[6693,6837,453,456,452,622,292,8701,8699,136,548,8702,2448,8710,91,4762,12,7,8734,5866,730,4,8700,6,3545,294,8727,90],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","category-water","tag-22-july-2013","tag-23-july-2013","tag-alapaha-river","tag-april-huntley","tag-brett-huntley","tag-demarcus-marshall","tag-ga-epd","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-joe-pritchard","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lake-alapaha","tag-law","tag-lcc","tag-lovell-engineering","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-mike-allen","tag-open-records","tag-regular-session","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-violation","tag-wastewater","tag-water","tag-work-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}