News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
Sparta leaders will meet with TDEC officials next week to discuss ongoing efforts to lift the city’s sewer moratorium.
Mayor Jerry Lowery said the city has a proposal from a vendor to install temporary flow meters across the system. Lowery said the data gained from the technology is required by TDEC.
“Probably next meeting we need to approve up to a number, because time is of the essence,” Lowery said. “TDEC has asked for data and we want data. With those flow meters, we will be able to do that better.”
Public Works Director Dillard Quick said the overall project would cost about $25,000. Quick said the flow numbers will be compared to past and future data to see if the city has made overflow improvements.
“We do have a timeline of data from 2020 to compare to the data that we can find now,” Quick said. “We have had some repairs to our sewer system. We need to get those in fairly quickly, because this is the dry time to see what our flow is.”
Quick said the meters would be in the system until about April. Lowery said in the future, he would like to explore installing permenant meters, so the city can always have an accurate measure of sewer flow.
Lowery said the meeting with TDEC will happen at the Cookeville offices at 1:00 p.m.
