Sewer Authority holds rates steady

Unique and different are words that Bob Winchester uses to describe the way Oconee County delivers sewer treatment.  But what the long-time executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority seemed most proud of last night is that the authority is free of debt and, for the fourth year, the authority has held the line on the charges it makes to its customers.  The JRSA’s customers are the cities of Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster who are charged a percentage formula for the wastewater they send through the pipes to the county’s Coneross Wastewater Treatment Plant at Seneca.  Those cities pass on their costs to their utility customers.  Winchester’s audience last night were leaders of the county’s three largest municipalities who gathered for their annual report meeting.