For more than eight decades, the Western Carolina Regional Sewer Authority has protected the public health and provided infrastructure to support economic growth in South Carolina, even as state and federal environmental regulations grew tighter.A population surge over the past 15 to 20 years challenged the authority with rebuilding the Tubbs Mountain Road No.1 pump station, one of the oldest in the wastewater network. Installed in the 1960s, the pump station was operating at maximum duty cycle and showing telltale signs of aging. In the end, rather than rebuild the old pump station, the authority decided to build one that
