Metro faces more than $1B in EPA-mandated sewer upgrades (Nashville)

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http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/metro-faces-more-1b-epa-mandated-sewer-upgrades


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But underneath the labyrinth of streets and homes that make up the neighborhoods dotting Davidson County, a struggle plays out inside the city’s pipes during these seemingly harmless moments of rainfall. Nashville’s two sets of sewers, one by structure and one through deterioration, aren’t equipped to prevent overflows induced by heavy precipitation that enters the system. As a result, fecal matter that exits a homeowner’s toilet can make it into the county’s waterways.

The price tag for fixing the problem is huge. Over the next decade and beyond, Metro must spend as much as $1.5 billion to comply with an Environmental Protection Agency-mandated upgrade to its sewer system just to become compliant with state and federal guidelines.

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“It’s clearly one of the most significant individual items that the city will ever do,” Metro Finance Director Rich Riebeling told The City Paper.

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wishing them good luck

money, money, money

[hobbit709]

1. and how long have they known about this and done nothing?

[trumad]

2. and here comes wall street

With a sweet heart deal.

See Jefferson County

[Firebrand Gary]

3. NOTICE TO THE GOP: This is an EPA enforced project, ask Country Radio

If they would like to see The Ryman Auditorium/The Grand Ole Opry destroyed by flooding again.