Chattanooga and the rest of Hamilton County could join Signal Mountain in its ongoing sewer moratorium.
Worried that the situation might relegate connecting the town of Signal Mountain to the Moccasin Bend sewage treatment facility to the back burner, local officials are looking for ways to speed up the process of the town’s compliance.
“We need to be working more aggressively as a community toward solving our stormwater issue,” Signal Mountain Town Councilman Dick Gee said. “It suggests that we are not willing just to let somebody do our work for us – we need to be involved.”
Signal Mountain officials are meeting with representatives from the Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority in the coming weeks to formulate a proactive plan and related time table.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently served Chattanooga and Hamilton County with a consent agreement that demands their sewer systems become compliant with its standards. Once the agreement is actually in place, the two governmental entities will have 37 months to become compliant.