The Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority will hold a public meeting at Nolan Elementary on Tuesday to provide a sewer update.
The meeting at 7 p.m. will be to advise the community on a state compliance order to reduce inflow and infiltration into the town’s sewer system that results in bypasses into the Tennessee River.
WWTA representatives will explain how the action steps they are required to take will affect town citizens and the current sewer moratorium.
All citizens are encouraged to attend.
Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Authority members voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend that a new $8 fee be imposed on all 24,000 WWTA customers served by gravity sewers.
The resulting $46 million in revenues – raised over a 20-year period – would be used to fund an aggressive Private Service Lateral Program designed to reduce influx and infiltration problems throughout the WWTA system.