Planned Student Housing Project Gets High Priority with OJRSA

A planned major student housing complex on Hwy 123, the Seneca-Clemson corridor, in the vicinity of Bojangle’s and Paw’s Diner, will get a higher priority with the OJRSA, thanks to the developer’s willingness to share in the cost.

The Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority’s policy board accepted an amendment by Westminster’s Kevin Bronson to move the Seneca Creek pumping station and related fittings from a number five priority to a number three priority on 10 pressing capital improvement projects that are liable to force the JRSA to take on borrowing debt and increase wholesale treatment charges to the member cities. Bronson said his motivation was boosted by Texas-based developer Brent Little’s willingness to help pay the cost of extending piped sewer to what’s planned as new student housing.

Out of those ten high priority projects, the replacement of the Flat Rock pump station remains top priority, and Bronson announced that the next finance and administration committee meeting he’s going to call for the Flat Rock engineering work to start.