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SEWER WOES

Chattanooga’s treatment system is one of only three in Tennessee and about a half dozen in the Southeast that include stormwater runoff in what’s known as a combined sewage overflow system. The combined systems generally are antiquated, and most of the 772 of them in the nation are in the Northeast, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data.