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KNOXVILLE
A Legacy that Lives 50 Years: Vaughn & Melton
Consulting Engineers
When you get up in the morning, do help keep the flow of commerce and Football and Women’s Basketball
you think about the water you use to take community – and football – moving Championships and it was the year
a shower and brush your teeth? forward for your family, your hometown, Vaughn & Melton entered into the
your state, your region.” Knoxville market.”
When it rains or snows, do you ponder
how the storm water gets from the Rehorn said this year marks the One of the most memorable projects
puddled roadway back to the flowing achievement of a major milestone. “On for Vaughn & Melton should be familiar
waterway? Feb. 20, 1967, what started as a small, two- to any Knoxville resident or University
person firm in Middlesboro, Ky., is now of Tennessee fan. It is the Cumberland
On your daily commute, trip to run an a thriving organization with more than Avenue Corridor Project, and it is
errand, or journey on a family vacation, 230 employees in 15 offices across five scheduled to be completed in August
do you think about how the paved Southeastern states,” she said. “Since our 2017. Vaughn & Melton will have
paths and bridges you travel came into inception, we have assisted more than 100 achieved another major milestone with
existence? state, municipal, and county governments the completion of a project that began as a
in achieving goals for infrastructure conversation in the late 1980’s.
For Vaughn & Melton, these questions enhancements, and is something I am
are constantly at the forefront of any day. proud to convey and to represent.” “Cumberland Avenue – ‘The Strip’ - is
Why? Because it is what they do – they the icon of student life and game day for
make sure people across the Southeast David Harrell, Regional Vice President my alma mater. It will be a very good day
can work, live, and play by designing for Vaughn & Melton states, “We are to see the completion of a project that has
the things one may take for granted – honored to be a part of something that been on the table for many years,” Harrell
structural foundations, roadways, bridges, helps people in the communities we stated. “It is a legacy project for Vaughn
sidewalks, water and wastewater systems serve.” & Melton, and one day when my own
and treatment facilities, storm water children look back, I hope they can say
systems, and more. Harrell continues, “Reflecting back ‘well done, Dad.’ It is this type of feedback
on our growth, 1998 was a particularly I am looking forward to for the future of
According to Becky Rehorn, Corporate good year. As a graduate of the University our company.”
Director of Marketing, “These seemingly of Tennessee, 1998 was the year the
mundane modern human necessities Volunteers won both the NCAA National
are why Vaughn & Melton exists – to
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