Fair Play Residents Concerned Over Future of Oconee County Farmlands

A contract to pipe sewer through Fair Play to I-85 may be just a signature away, but that didn’t stop supporters of county agriculture from pressing the issue that, without safeguards, the livelihoods of farmers are in jeopardy and the flow of food products weakened.

Gwen McPhail and Louise Lusk implored the county council to preserve farm land. Fair Play resident Luke Moore expressed worry that, as the result of the scuttling of the Sanctuary Pointe project, county residents will get billed for the extension of sewer for which there are, at this point, apparently a lack of customers.

For years, county officials have been consistent in their belief that, once sewer is available on Oconee’s four-mile section of I-85, paying development will follow.