“Chattooga Strong” is what Cindy McGraw, executive director of the Chattooga County Chamber of Commerce, said people are calling the communitywide effort to recover from last weekend’s disastrous floods.
Residents of Chattooga County, Georgia, are still cleaning up and tallying damage, while as of Friday afternoon Summerville’s municipal water system is working again.
Community leaders praised the recovery and relief work done by volunteers to supply drinking water to people who went without for most of the week, coordinate showers and laundry service, as well as provide food to Chattooga County residents in need.
“We’re trying to assess the damages of the entire community,” McGraw said in a phone interview. “So the hardest hit, of course, is downtown Summerville. Trion has a bit of flooding up there, and we’ve got some issues in Pennville and Lyerly. I think it’s touched every corner of this county.”
On a city of Summerville social media page, there was an update on the municipal water system, offline since the city’s water treatment facility was flooded last weekend. Posted Thursday night, the page said filters three and four were operating.