Sewer makeover continues in Athens, Tenn.

Arkansas-North Carolina Live Blog

ATHENS, TN - "When you flush your commode, you want it [the waste] to go away," says Wayne Scarbrough, Assistant General Manager at Athens Utility Board.

That's why the company decided a decade ago to start the process of overhauling the city's sewer system at a price tag of 25 million dollars. "The biggest part of that being about $18 million rebuilding the Oostanaula Plant to make it a much higher capacity," explains Scarbrough.

This increases it from two million gallons a day to six million, along with bigger pipes that will last longer.

Read more at WRCB.

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