By Kimberly McMillian
Correspondent
DAYTON, Tenn. — State regulators at a hearing this week didn’t deny potential for flooding around the site of a proposed nursing home but said that issue wasn’t in their jurisdiction.
Life Care Centers of America Inc. has plans to build an 89-bed nursing home on 14.5 acres owned by Steve Dillard on Manufacturers Road. Residents worry that relocating Stewart Branch, a tributary that runs through the property, could increase the potential for flooding.
“It’s going to flood our farms,” resident June Tallent said at a hearing Tuesday on environmental issues related to the proposal.