Clyburn to help dedicate $35M LMRWA Treatment Plant
By T&D Staff Sunday, April 27, 2008SANTEE -- Sixth District U.S. Congressman and House Minority Whip James E. Clyburn will be the keynote speaker Monday at a program dedicating the new Lake Marion Water Treatment Plant.
The $35 million, 8 million gallons-per-day facility could ultimately provide safe, reliable drinking water to six counties and two municipalities in Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Dorchester, Orangeburg and Sumter counties.
The dedication will begin at 10 a.m. at the Lake Marion Water Treatment Plant, 149 Graveyard Rock Road, one mile east of Santee off S.C. Highway 6.
Others participating in the ceremony will be Johnnie Wright, chairman of the Lake Marion Regional Water Agency; Lonnie Carter, president and CEO of Santee Cooper; and Brig. Gen. Joseph Schroedel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Atlantic commander.
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