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.
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