by John Wagner, RadioJones, LLC
A four-peat was announced Monday, June 1, at the Swainsboro City Council meeting. ClearWater Solutions received the Georgia Association of Water Professional’s Gold Award for error free operation of the city’s Yam Grandy Creek Water Pollution Control Facility for the fourth year in a row for the waste water award. C-W-S Area Manager Chris Morton also informed that for the first time since 2019 they were awarded the Gold for water quality as well. “That means we had perfect compliance, no violations.” Take a sip and see what you think or check out the full Water Report for 2025 on the city of Swainsboro’s Face Book page in a May 21st post. Morton brought along three or his key staff to introduce, Wade Holcomb, Lead Operator, Will Hutcheson Operations Supervisor and Jamie Jones Operator in Training.
Also announced was this year’s ClearWater Solutions Swainsboro High School $1,000 scholarship recipient, Maddox Robertson; the SHS Grad is an Industrial Engineering student at Georgia Southern. Morton says ClearWater likes to give back to the community’s they are in. Morton passed around pictures of two used truck purchased by the city that ClearWater outfitted with 12,000 dollars worth of equipment to put in service “the trucks were purchased from Lane Brothers Auction. They are former Georgia Power trucks and in great shape.” Adding, “From the Public Works Department, Thank You for helping us get the things we need to do everyday.”
In actions at the Meeting, in New Business council unanimously approved the expense of Local Road Assistance Funds which is grant money from Georgia DOT. City Administrator Herman Middlebrooks outlined the roads that will be added to the rolling list of future paving projects, “Adding to the list, because we felt they needed some attention were Marion, Sutton and the remainder of North Green. Live Oak Circle is a street in a new subdivision that we said we would help put in. We also have Flanders and Bell Street on the list.” Middlebrooks pointed out to the Council that they can add roads to the list. “The good thing about the Local Road Assistance money is that we can bank it with the LMIG money for 3 years until we have enough to do a paving project.” Council member Brad McKenzie and others ask when these projects might begin. The Administrator responded, “If we bank it for three years, it will be just three years.” It can also be sooner though, he says. McKenzie chimed back that “I wanted everybody to hear that it ain’t tomorrow.” After that the meeting was adjourned.
