Sewer Moratorium
On May 23rd, 2006 the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (T.D.E.C.) issued the City of Brentwood and Metro Nashville an Agreed Order as a result of sanitary sewer overflows in the area of the Brentwood-Metro Sewage Lift Station.
The Agreed Order prohibits further sewer connections, line extensions, or increased flows to its wastewater collection system that flows to the Brentwood pump station (see map of Moratorium Area), except for those connections and line extensions currently under construction or to which Brentwood and/or Metro are legally committed, and those necessitated by subsurface sewage disposal systems which, because of failure, pose a health hazard.
The moratorium shall remain in effect until modified or rescinded in by the TDEC or upon completion of the activities set forth in the CAP/ER. However, Brentwood may present to the T.D.E.C. a written request, with supporting data, for partial or total relaxation of the moratorium based on the successful progress of the CAP/ER.
Project Update: (updated 08/05/08)
The City has contracted with three separate sewer rehabilitation contractors who are all currently working in various areas of the City to rehabilitate sewers which have been identified as in need of repair. Each contractor will be rehabilitating various sizes of sewer pipe by lining the inside of the pipe. The lining method provides for less above ground disruption.
Insituform Technologies is currently working in the Fountainhead, Meadowlake, Brentwood Country Club and Belle Rive Subdivisions, Premier Infrastructure is working in the area of Church Street and Wilson Pike Circle and Moore Construction has been busy in the areas of Twin Springs and west of Wilson Pike between Concord Road and Moore’s Lane. To date, approximately 30,000 linear feet of pipe has been rehabilitated.
On August 4, 2008 the City presented to T.D.E.C. its written request for partial relief from the moratorium based on rehabilitation efforts to date. We are now waiting on a response from the T.D.E.C. office. Depending on their response, the City may or may not allow new connections to the sewer system.