This is the first building of the Marion County Regional Institute of Technical Excellence, which will serve as a satellite campus for Chattanooga State. The building will be named for longtime former mayor Howell Moss.KIMBALL, Tenn. – When city leaders committed $750,000 to the Marion County Regional Institute of Technical Excellence for the installation of a new sewer line, there was one variable that concerned them.
The plan called for the sewer line to extend from Industrial Boulevard and underneath Interstate 24 to the new school’s site.
Anthony Pelham, an engineer with James C. Hailey & Co. in Nashville, said the one unknown was the existing 8-inch line that had been installed along Industrial Boulevard over 20 years ago.
That line had to be pressure-tested since it had never been used, and Mayor David Jackson said Kimball had set aside $100,000 in case those tests revealed major problems.
The tests yielded “several findings” along the line, Pelham said.