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Corps to reconsider Megasite permit
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Ben Kirsch, legal director for the Ogeechee Riverkeeper, addresses the Bulloch County commissioners Tuesday evening, June 25. The Riverkeeper convinced the Army Corps of Engineers to relook at its permit for groundwater at the Hyundai metaplant. Photo provided
In response to concerns raised by Ogeechee Riverkeeper in a threat of a lawsuit, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to re-evaluate its October 2022 permit for the Bryan County Megasite – where Hyundai Motorgroup’s electric vehicle Metaplant is now nearly built – by considering the volume of water to be pumped from four proposed wells in southeastern Bulloch County.
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