Septic installation and repair and lake-lot site work in Buckhead, Georgia, the Morgan County town near the north end of Lake Oconee.BUCKHEAD, MORGAN COUNTY — SEPTIC AT THE TOP OF LAKE OCONEE.

There is the town: 194 people on less than a square mile, incorporated in 1908, a mile north of I-20 at the Seven Islands Road exit and seven miles from Madison. Tradition says early hunters named it by nailing a buck's head to a tree. Its neighbors on the Clean Water Act rolls are a Martin Marietta quarry on Seven Islands Road, a concrete plant and a dairy, not a sewer plant.↗↗

Then there is the lake. Sugar Creek Marina at 353 Parks Mill Road, Blue Springs Marina on Blue Springs Drive and the Swords boat ramp on Blue Springs Road all carry Buckhead 30625 addresses, on the upper end of Lake Oconee. Morgan County's plan counts about 25 miles of lake shoreline along its southeastern edge, and the same plan says most unincorporated land has no water or sewer lines, so houses there pair a well with septic.↗↗

The two need different work. In town it is replacing tired tanks and fields behind older houses and mobile homes. On the lake it is fitting a system onto a sloping wooded lot without crossing Georgia Power's line, and moving dirt without putting it in the cove.