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Bulloch County approves $235,000, five-year groundwater monitoring contract with Georgia Southern
Summary
The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners unanimously authorized a five-year, six-well groundwater monitoring program with Georgia Southern for $235,000 to establish baseline aquifer data as four municipal wells come online; commissioners discussed funding, mitigation reserves and monitoring design before the vote.
Bulloch County commissioners voted unanimously to authorize the county manager to execute a $235,000, five-year contract with Georgia Southern University to install and operate a six-well groundwater monitoring network.
The approval came after Planning and Development Director James Pope, who also serves as the county’s groundwater sustainability program manager, told the board that 24-hour pump tests on four new production wells produced better-than-expected results compared with the state model. Pope said the monitoring program would record water-level data every 15 minutes, produce quarterly and…
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