The wastewater system infrastructure in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is undergoing a massive makeover, mostly to boost the system’s ability to handle a high volume of stormwater and wastewater during heavy rain events.
Sanitary sewer overflows caught the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency several years back, and Chattanooga is actively tackling that issue under the terms of a 2013 consent decree agreement with the EPA, Tennessee and the Tennessee Clean Water Network.
The agreement includes both a list of issues that must be addressed and penalties including $800,000 to be spent on a supplemental environmental project, $238,000 for a state environmental project
