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NARRATOR V/O: Hogansville, Georgia, a
small town with 3,100 residents, has
undergone a series of severe droughts over
the past three decades. With each drought
they sought a new solution.
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Jean Crocker
Hogansville City Council Member
City of Hogansville, GA
JEAN CROCKER: …since I've been in
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water supply, which was Flat Creek dried up…
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James Austin Woods
City Manager
City of Hogansville, GA
JAMES AUSTIN WOODS: The original drought
Hogansville, we've had problems with
drought. The first one was in 1987 … and our
… was so bad that the National Guard got
involved and was hauling in water by the
tanker truck-loads.
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Newspaper Article
JAMES AUSTIN WOODS: We managed to
finally overcome that drought, only to find
ourselves catapulted into the next drought…
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EPA Branded Statement
NARRATOR V/O: EPA engaged several small
to medium-sized drought-impacted utilities to
identify lessons learned and outline effective
strategies to increase resilience to drought.
For Hogansville … interconnecting with
neighboring systems was key to securing a
reliable water supply.
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Drought Response and Recovery
Drought Response and Recovery
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Hogansville, GA
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NARRATOR: Knowing Flat Creek was not a
viable option for the future, Hogansville
worked with multiple agencies to draw water
from the nearby Blue Creek reservoir, which
became their new source of water. Then, a
severe drought struck in 2003.
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JOE VIDAL: The city of Hogansville was
monitoring the reservoir level. This reservoir,
the Blue Creek Reservoir, did get down to six
inches, which in time-wise, was only six days.
When we got down to six days of water we
started panicking…. we hired a private
company, and we got some portable pumps
and we found the deepest spot in the lake and
pumped it into the intake itself. We did that
for about close to a month. After that, that's
when we started getting rain and everything
got back under control
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JAMES AUSTIN WOODS: By 2007-2008, we
had come into the next period of drought.
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JAMES AUSTIN WOODS: We, fortunately,
were prepared in having an adequate facility.
We had back up water supplies, and we were
able to meet the mandates that the Governor
had placed on reducing water usages.
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NARRATOR: Along with meeting the
Governor’s Statewide 10% reductions and
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using their existing well to supplement
supply, Hogansville brought in Georgia Rural
Water to conduct leak detection surveys.
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HANNER: Georgia Rural Water Association
Jeff Hanner
works hand in hand with the Environmental
Georgia Rural Water Association
Protection Division, which is the state
primacy agent.
We located four to five leaks and the one very
large leak that was approximately 55,000
gallons a day, which they were able to locate
and repair. The unaccountable water was
approximately 38%, and it reduced it down to
18%.
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NOTE: Remove all the footage of Joe NARRATOR V/O: Hogansville was able to
taking chlorine residual samples.
survive the 2007 drought by maximizing their
He does it wrong in both shots so
existing sources, but because of the past
don’t want to show that. If we want
failures of Flat Creek and Blue Creek
the footage we need to re-shoot it.
Reservoir, they knew they needed a more
reliable water supply.
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Bill Stankiewicz
Mayor
City of Hogansville, GA
BILL STANKIEWICZ: The drought of 2007
was almost a blessing in disguise. It made us
realize that our supply of water, let alone how
we treat it, was wholly inadequate for our
current needs, let alone any future needs.
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Lisa Kelly
City Clerk
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LISA KELLY: So we have a reservoir that is
volatile of course at this point… especially
with the drought. And it's proven to us we
have to do something. So we have problem A
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over here. Problem B is we have an aging,
very well aging, water plant ….
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BILL STANKIEWICZ: So it became obvious to
us that the solution was not necessarily to
build a new water treatment plant. We
needed additional sources of water, so we
started to look around.
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KELLY: So we start going to other agencies,
which is the city of LaGrange to begin with,
create those intergovernmental agreements
so that we can protect ourselves down the
road.
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BILL STANKIEWICZ: LaGrange had permits in
place and sources of water in place to much
more than supply their needs. … The state
assisted in providing some emergency
assistance and a GEFA loan, which is Georgia
Environmental Financing Authority. They
provided the financing to build a pipeline
from LaGrange, approximately 12 miles I
believe it was, to connect to our water supply.
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Agree we need more shots of
KELLY: [We] then later go over to Coweta
Cowetta and also from
County and approach them so that we have
Merriweather (signs, wells, master
not only one source of water, but two sources
meter, more shots of the industrial
of water at this point. And those connections
park)
are building those long-term bridges.
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NARRATOR V/O: With a reliable water
supply in place, Hogansville was able to help
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neighboring Meriwether County, who was
struggling to find enough water for an
industrial park.
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Bruce O’Neal
Public Works Director
Meriwether County, GA
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BRUCE O’NEAL: We drilled four or five wells
and the most water we got out of any of them
was just seven or eight gallons per minute.
BRUCE O’NEAL: We worked out deals with
Hogansville to provide most of our utilities for
this park since we couldn't find any water.
They have plenty of water and plenty of
reserves. All of that worked out real good for
Meriwether County and Hogansville.
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NARRATOR V/O: Hogansville’s regional
approach to addressing drought has proven
to be a success for their small community.
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WOODS: … we're now dependent on those
two sources from LaGrange and Coweta, and
we're looking to the future of making sure
that we have adequate capacity in both
directions so that we can continue to grow
and prosper here in Hogansville.
And at this point, we have over a million and a
half gallons of excess capacity.
So at this place and time, we feel like we're
prepared for the next drought.
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Response and Recovery Guide for additional
ways to make your utility more drought
resilient at:
W-W-W dot E-P-A dot Gov slash water utility
response.
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