Guyton’s city council also accepted a proposed revision to its service delivery area last Monday, which will expand the territory the city will serve with water and wastewater. The boundary will extend roughly north to Tusculum Road, east to Little McCall Road, south to Pineora and west to the Ogeechee River.

“It’s going to take a long time to get out there,” city public works director Mike O’Neal said.

Currently, the service delivery line is a half-mile past the city limits. Guyton officials wanted to make sure they had enough area to place a possible wastewater treatment plant.

“This give us the first right of refusal on serving developments,” Alderman Les Pevey said.

The proposed service delivery map has not been before the county commission for discussion.

City alderman also discussed a letter from attorney Mickey Kicklighter asking that a proposed 231-acre development on Highway 17 be released from the city’s service delivery area because of insufficient water and sewer capacity.

“The city is more than willing to provide them with service,” Pevey said.

Pevey wants the EPD to have the final word on whether the development can be released from the service delivery area.

“If they are going to go on septic tanks, we need to talk to the EPD about the water promised,” Mayor Michael Garvin said.

Alderman Phillip King said the city could get the water needed to the development as soon as the EPD releases the permit. According to Garvin, the city has a water line that dead-ends at the property.

“I don’t know that the EPD is going to give them a permit for a well,” King said.