Staff Photo by Randall Higgins/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Mickey Webb of Webb Plumbing and Heating explains the pumps and few other components of the geothermal system that will heat and cool Cleveland High School’s new science wing.The man who oversees the Moccasin Bend Sewage Treatment Plant was given a suspended misdemeanor jail sentence, probation and a fine this week in connection with a sewage spill last year that killed fish and fouled water at the Browns Ferry Marina.
Jerry Stewart, Chattanooga’s director of waste resources, was charged with pollution of water in connection with the Aug. 6 spill of more than 100,000 gallons of raw sewage from a pump station into the bay beside the Browns Ferry Marina on the Tennessee River.
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officer Bobby Brown said he cited Stewart because it wasn’t the first such spill into the Tennessee River from the plant and TWRA must cite an individual, not an entity.
“He was the representative for the city of Chattanooga,” Brown said.
He said if there are no further spills when the probation period ends, Stewart’s record will be expunged.