Septic permits & records
Greene County Environmental Health (Northeast Health District)
- Address
- 1031 Apalachee Ave, Greensboro, GA 30642
- Phone
- 706-453-4471
- Hours
- Specialists in the office 8:30-10:00 a.m., Monday-Friday
Lake Oconee · Harbor Club
Septic installation, drain field repair and site work at Harbor Club on Lake Oconee, in Greene County near Greensboro, Georgia.
Harbor Club on Lake Oconee, on Lake Oconee · Greene County. ZIP code 30642.
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Is Harbor Club on Lake Oconee on sewer or septic?
Mostly septic. Harbor Club is not on Piedmont Water's list of sewer communities, and homes from a 1999 build on Club Drive to a 2025 build on Glen Eagle Drive list septic tanks. A few newer enclaves list a shared 'commercial system' instead, so check each lot's record with Greene County Environmental Health.↗↗↗
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Local facts
Harbor Club by the record
Each row links to the agency, code or publisher it comes from. Tap a source to check it yourself.
| Topic | What it says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Size and shoreline | 1,100 wooded acres bordered by nine miles of Lake Oconee shoreline | Harbor Club on Lake Oconee (official site) |
| Golf course | 18 holes by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, par 72, listed as built in 1991; One Club Drive, Greensboro | GolfNow: Harbor Club on Lake Oconee course details |
| Sewer provider | Not on Piedmont Water's sewer list (Marina Bay, Del Webb, The Landing, Reynolds, Great Waters, Cuscowilla, Hwy 44 corridor) | Piedmont Water Company: Wastewater Services (sewer communities list) |
| Soil at the community's center point | Lloyd gravelly loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, moderately eroded; NRCS rates it somewhat limited for septic fields | USDA NRCS Soil Data Access: map unit at Harbor Club (33.4867, -83.2138), survey area GA133 |
| Septic lot minimum (Greene) | 0.75 acre on public water, 1.5 acres on a private well, not counting land within 75 ft of the high-water line | Greene County Board of Health: Lot Size Ordinance (effective Sept 7, 2018) |
Sewer or septic?
Septic under most of Harbor Club, a shared system in a few pockets
Unlike Reynolds, Great Waters or Cuscowilla across the lake, Harbor Club does not appear on Piedmont Water's list of communities where it has sewer. The listings tell the rest. A 1999 house on 0.6 acre on Club Drive shows a septic tank, and so does a 2025 house on a half-acre on Glen Eagle Drive.↗↗↗
The exceptions are small and specific. In The Enclave at Heron Ridge, a 2022 home on 0.2 acre off Providence Loop lists a community well and a 'Commercial System' for sewer, with the landscaping kept by the HOA. A lot on Turnberry Circle lists the same commercial-system entry. We could not find a public source naming who owns or runs that shared system, so ask the seller and the HOA for the operator and its agreement in writing.↗↗
Water varies by section too: listings show 'Commercial System', 'Community Well' or city water. That matters, because Greene's lot minimum doubles to 1.5 acres on a private well.↗↗
How to tell which one you have
- Read the 'Sewer' field on the MLS listing: 'Septic Tank' or 'Commercial System'.
- Ask Greene Environmental Health (706-453-4471) for the permit record on the address.
- If anyone says Piedmont serves the lot, get it in writing: Piedmont tells agents a nearby line does not mean a lot can connect.
The Harbor Club story
A golf course, four creeks and a drain field on every lot
Harbor Club was laid out around its course. The Weiskopf and Morrish holes touch the lake six times and run past four creeks and a string of interior ponds, and the homesites fill the ground between them. Every one of those lots has to find room for a tank and a field that stays 50 feet off the lake and off any creek or tributary, 100 feet from a well, and clear of the fairway and the cart path.↗↗
Greene County's Board of Health has had a lot-size ordinance since 2003 and last amended it in 2018. It sets the septic minimum at 0.75 acre on public water, with 25,500 square feet of usable soil, and does not count any of the lot inside 75 feet of Lake Oconee's high-water line. Those minimums assume a typical three- or four-bedroom house; the board says bigger homes, pools, tennis courts or outbuildings will need bigger lots. Some Harbor Club lots are well under 0.75 acre, like the half-acre on Glen Eagle Drive, so how a particular platted lot is treated is a question for Greene Environmental Health before you buy, not after.↗↗
The course opened in 1991 and the first houses followed, so the oldest Harbor Club fields are now near 30 years in the ground. A tired field by a fairway rarely quits at once; it shows up as a soft green strip after rain or a slow drain on the low side of the house.↗↗
More about Harbor Club
Site work inside the gate: buffer, slopes and where the water goes
On a lakefront lot the strip nearest the water belongs to the rules. Georgia Power allows no mechanical clearing or regrading in the 25-foot buffer or on its land without written approval, after the county's buffer permits. A tree removed for a house or septic system gets replaced one for one with a native.↗
Drainage is where golf-lot projects go wrong. Georgia Power will not let drain pipe cross its property, so roof water and yard water have to stop at the project line and spread out through a swale, a French drain or a dry creek bed. On an interior lot the same water must also stay off the drain field, which means grading the pad so the field sits in its own undisturbed patch of ground.↗
The ground is kinder than most of the lake: gently sloping Lloyd gravelly loam at the center, rated somewhat limited, while 38 percent of Greene rates very limited. Lots that fall hard to a cove change the plan, since Georgia bars trenches on slopes over 25 percent without a special soil study. That is when pump tanks and drip lines come in.↗↗
Greene is not on EPD's May-to-September burn-ban list, unlike Putnam and Morgan. Inside a golf community, chipping or hauling brush is still the better neighbor.↗
- Harbor Club's marina side includes a 72-slip dry stack, two boat ramps, fuel and day docks, per a community profile.↗
On a lakefront lot the strip nearest the water belongs to the rules.
Permits · Greene County Environmental Health (Northeast Health District), 1031 Apalachee Ave, Greensboro
The Greene County permit path for a Harbor Club system
New systems, repairs and bedroom additions at Harbor Club all go through Greene Environmental Health. We dig to the permit and leave it open for the inspector.
- 01
Call the Greene County Environmental Health Manager for a septic letter or perc test. Greene's building office will not issue a permit that depends on septic without that approval letter.↗
- 02
Check the lot against Greene's minimum: 0.75 acre on public or community water, 1.5 acres on a private well, with the 75-foot lake strip left out of the count.↗
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For anything touching the 25-foot buffer or Georgia Power land, get the county buffer permits and Georgia Power's written approval before a machine goes in.↗
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Install within the permit's 12-month life, and nothing gets covered until the county inspects and approves the work.↗
Georgia rule Greene County Board of Health Lot Size Ordinance (2018)
“exclusive of that portion of a lot lying within seventy-five (75') of the high water level line of Lake Oconee”
Services here
What Harbor Club lots need from us
Septic first, because nearly every house here has one. Then the dirt work a golf-and-lake lot takes.
- 01Septic System InstallationInfill homesites still being built on Glen Eagle, Turnberry and Club Drive.Septic System Installation details
- 02Drain Field Installation & RepairFields from the 1990s build-out reaching 30 years, often squeezed between fairway and cove.Drain Field Installation & Repair details
- 03Septic System RepairCracked lids, failed baffles and broken lines on older Harbor Club tanks.Septic System Repair details
- 04Septic Pump SystemsLakefront houses that sit below the only ground that perks.Septic Pump Systems details
- 05Drip Septic SystemsSmall or steep lots that cannot hold trenches on contour.Drip Septic Systems details
- 06Land & Lot ClearingSelective clearing that leaves the 25-foot buffer alone.Land & Lot Clearing details
- 07Grading & Driveway PreparationHouse pads and drives graded so runoff misses the field.Grading & Driveway Preparation details
- 08French Drain InstallationWhere Georgia Power will not take a pipe, a French drain takes the water.French Drain Installation details
- 09Erosion Control & Land DryingSilt fence and stabilization so open clay never reaches the cove.Erosion Control & Land Drying details
Also available:Aerobic Septic SystemsBasement ExcavationSewer Line Builds, Taps & RebuildsWaterlines, Distribution Systems & Mains
Local service pages
Our services in Harbor Club
Who to call at the county
Who signs off on work at Harbor Club
- Greene County Building & Zoning Building and land-disturbance permits1034 Silver Drive, Suite 103, Greensboro; 706-453-3333.↗
- Georgia Power East Georgia Lake Resources Office Buffer, tree-removal and shoreline approvals on Lake Oconee125 Wallace Dam Road NE, Eatonton.↗
- Piedmont Water Company Not listed as a Harbor Club sewer provider; confirms availability for vacant lots in writingVacant-lot availability questions go to development@piedmontwater.com.↗
Nearby areas
Around Harbor Club on the lake
- Lake Oconee Parkway septic & sewerThe GA 44 corridor where Piedmont sewer reaches some parcels and not others.
- Reynolds Lake Oconee septic & sewerThe big Greene County resort, on Piedmont low-pressure sewer.
- The Landing septic & sewerA Piedmont-sewered neighborhood inside Reynolds.
- Greene's open shoreline septic & sewerParks Mill and White Oak lots on septic, outside any gate.
- Del Webb Lake Oconee septic & sewerActive-adult homes on Piedmont sewer.
FAQ
Harbor Club septic and lot questions
Straight answers, with the rule or record behind them. Still unsure? Call and ask the crew that digs.
(678) 863-5620Does Piedmont Water provide sewer at Harbor Club?
Harbor Club is not on Piedmont's published list of sewer communities, which names Marina Bay, Del Webb, The Landing, Reynolds, Great Waters, Cuscowilla and the Highway 44 corridor. Most Harbor Club homes list septic tanks.
Source: Piedmont Water Company: Wastewater Services (sewer communities list)
Can I build on a half-acre Harbor Club lot with septic?
Greene's Board of Health sets 0.75 acre on public water as the septic minimum, excluding land within 75 feet of the lake, and asks for more ground for large homes or pools. Some half-acre Harbor Club lots carry septic anyway, so ask Greene Environmental Health how the rule applies to your platted lot before closing.
Source: Greene County Board of Health: Lot Size Ordinance (effective Sept 7, 2018)
How close to the lake can a Harbor Club drain field go?
Georgia's rule is 50 feet from the lake's normal water level for the field and 25 feet for the tank. Greene also leaves the 75-foot strip along the high-water line out of the lot-size math, and Georgia Power's 25-foot buffer limits clearing.
Source: Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 511-3-1-.07, Absorption Fields (LII)
My listing says 'Commercial System' for sewer. What is that?
Some Harbor Club enclaves, such as The Enclave at Heron Ridge off Providence Loop, list a shared commercial system instead of a private tank. No public record we found names its operator, so get the operator and the HOA's maintenance terms in writing.
Source: MLS listing: 1131 Providence Loop, Greensboro GA (Harbor Club)
Is a septic inspection required when a Harbor Club house sells?
Georgia has no statewide point-of-sale septic inspection rule. County boards of health will evaluate an existing system on request, using installation records, maintenance records and a site visit; Greene lists that evaluation at $175.
Can I run my gutter drains to the lake?
Not across Georgia Power land. Its Lake Oconee guidelines make drainage pipes stop at the project boundary and hand off to swales, French drains or dry creek beds.
Guides
Reading for Harbor Club owners and buyers
Septic for a Georgia lake houseHow a lake-lot system is sized, sited and permitted.Read the guide 
Signs a drain field is failingWhat a tired 1990s field looks like next to a fairway.Read the guide 
Georgia Power shoreline rules and septicThe buffer, tree and drainage rules on Harbor Club's nine miles of shore.Read the guide
Sources
Where these facts come from
Rules, costs and local facts on this page link to the agency, code or publisher that states them. Cost figures are third-party market ranges, not our prices — estimates are free.
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- 1Piedmont Water Company: Wastewater Services (sewer communities list)
- 2MLS listing: 1270 Glen Eagle Dr, Greensboro GA (Harbor Club)
- 3MLS listing: 1131 Providence Loop, Greensboro GA (Harbor Club)
- 4Harbor Club on Lake Oconee (official site)
- 5GolfNow: Harbor Club on Lake Oconee course details
- 6USDA NRCS Soil Data Access: map unit at Harbor Club (33.4867, -83.2138), survey area GA133
- 7Greene County Board of Health: Lot Size Ordinance (effective Sept 7, 2018)
- 8MLS listing: 1660 Club Dr, Greensboro GA (Harbor Club)
- 9MLS listing: 1101 Turnberry Circle, Greensboro GA (Harbor Club)
- 10Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 511-3-1-.03, General Requirements for On-Site Sewage Management Systems (LII)
- 11Explore Georgia: Greene County visitor brochure (golf and lodging)
- 12Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 511-3-1-.07, Absorption Fields (LII)
- 13GA DPH: Background and Use of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems in Georgia
- 14Georgia Power: Lake Oconee Shoreline Guidelines
- 15GA DPH Manual for On-Site Sewage Management Systems (March 2026), Section B: General Site Provisions
- 16GA EPD press release, Apr. 29, 2026: Annual Ban on Open Burning
- 17CommunityFinder: Harbor Club Lake Oconee community profile
- 18Greene County, GA: Septic Tank Permits
- 19Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 511-3-1 (On-Site Sewage Management Systems)
- 20Greene County EH Fees (effective August 1, 2024)
- 21Northeast Health District: Greene County locations (Environmental Health)
- 22Georgia Power: East Georgia Lakes (Oconee/Sinclair)
- 23Piedmont Water: Public Education with Piedmont, Grinder Pumps and Coffee (Oct 2026)
- 24GA DPH Manual for On-Site Sewage Management Systems (March 2026), Section L: Operation and Maintenance
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