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Photo left: A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was held on Friday, October 23, 2015. In attendance were, left to right: Herby Rader, SSR, Inc.; Steve Judy, Judy Construction;
Martin Cross, Veolia Water; John West, TDEC; David Wear, Mayor of Pigeon Forge; Joyce Brackins, Commissioner; Mark Miller, Director of Public Works; Earlene Teaster,
City Manager; and Jay Ogle, Commissioner. Photo right: Sevier County kindergarten students were also invited and each went home with a goldfish.
Pigeon Forge WWTP from page 15 Ripken Baseball Experience with six community center and school. Open
baseball fields, landscaping, and indoor channels were minimized and provided
consumption for plant process water by aquarium with native brown speckled with covers that connected to the system.
96 percent trout Conclusion
• The plant supports the first municipal • The SBR system was designed to allow The plant’s performance is exceeding
reuse system in East Tennessee that is feeding of coagulant into the jet mixing expectations and enhancing the
used by: Wear’s Park with six baseball/ system may be required for future environment in Pigeon Forge and the
softball fields; Pigeon Forge High School phosphorus removal surrounding areas. The new wastewater
football field; LeConte Community • A positive odor control system at the treatment plant will enable Pigeon Forge to
Center and Library Complex influent pump station, valve vault, increase its permanent population, while
landscaping; water feature at plant with screening and dewatering building also growing its visitor population for years
aquatic life; greenways and walkways; protect the ambiance of the adjacent to come.
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Martin Cross, Veolia Water; John West, TDEC; David Wear, Mayor of Pigeon Forge; Joyce Brackins, Commissioner; Mark Miller, Director of Public Works; Earlene Teaster,
City Manager; and Jay Ogle, Commissioner. Photo right: Sevier County kindergarten students were also invited and each went home with a goldfish.
Pigeon Forge WWTP from page 15 Ripken Baseball Experience with six community center and school. Open
baseball fields, landscaping, and indoor channels were minimized and provided
consumption for plant process water by aquarium with native brown speckled with covers that connected to the system.
96 percent trout Conclusion
• The plant supports the first municipal • The SBR system was designed to allow The plant’s performance is exceeding
reuse system in East Tennessee that is feeding of coagulant into the jet mixing expectations and enhancing the
used by: Wear’s Park with six baseball/ system may be required for future environment in Pigeon Forge and the
softball fields; Pigeon Forge High School phosphorus removal surrounding areas. The new wastewater
football field; LeConte Community • A positive odor control system at the treatment plant will enable Pigeon Forge to
Center and Library Complex influent pump station, valve vault, increase its permanent population, while
landscaping; water feature at plant with screening and dewatering building also growing its visitor population for years
aquatic life; greenways and walkways; protect the ambiance of the adjacent to come.
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