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Guiding South Hall growth proves to be a tricky task
County leaders hope area grows into its sewer investment
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Scott Porter, operator at the Hall County Spout Springs Water Reclamation Facility, walks to the facility’s basins to retrieve a sample for testing Friday afternoon. Hall County recently purchased the 750,000 gallon per day reclamation facility on Spout Springs Road to meet growth demands and attract industry.
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell,” author and environmentalist Edward Abbey said. But when it comes to development in South Hall County, that foreboding lament has strings attached. The Great Recession and slow, plodding economic recovery put government, businesses, schools and the working class in a financial bind.