EPD makes user-ready mitigation fund a ‘must’

Draft permits for counties’ Hyundai supply wells posted; public input meeting August 13 at SEB

Georgia EPD geologist John Ariail, left, helps Bulloch County resident Robert Smith locate him home in relation to wells being drilled by Hyundai following an EPD meeting at Southeast Bulloch High School on Monday, Feb. 26. The EPD has called another public meeting for August 13 at SEB. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

SCOTT BRYANT/staff Georgia EPD geologist John Ariail, left, helps Bulloch County resident Robert Smith locate him home in relation to wells being drilled by Hyundai following an EPD meeting at Southeast Bulloch High School on Monday, Feb. 26. The EPD has — Georgia EPD geologist John Ariail, left, helps Bulloch County resident Robert Smith locate him home in relation to wells being drilled by Hyundai following an EPD meeting at Southeast Bulloch High School on Monday, Feb. 26. The EPD has called another public meeting for August 13 at SEB. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/staff

In the draft permits released Monday for Bulloch and Bryan counties’ four big wells to supply water to Hyundai’s Metaplant America, the Georgia EPD makes a fully defined and application-ready mitigation fund for impacts on other wells in a five-mile radius a “must” before pumping begins.

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