One of the fastest growing areas in the country needs a regional sewer and drinking water plan.
- For over a decade, studies by the EPA, TDEC, HRWA and others have recorded oxygen levels in much of the Harpeth River in the summer that do NOT meet state water quality standards set to protect public health and wildlife.
- While stormwater runoff from urban and agricultural areas contribute pollution in the river, during the summer the dominant impact on the river are sewer plant discharges.
- Three sewage treatment plants (STP) discharge treated effluent into the Harpeth River: The City of Franklin, Berry’s Chapel Utility, Inc. (now Harpeth Wastewater Cooperative), and Cartwright Creek, LLC.