The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) defended the operation of its septic permit office in Bradley County, including the work of manager Hank Thompson. The Bradley County ...

HAWKINS COUNTY, TN (WJHL) – The Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office says it will probably be Monday before we know the identity of a woman’s body that was found in a septic tank overflow pond earlier this ...

BUTLER, Tenn. (WJHL) — A Watauga Lake marina faces a $32,000 state fine for violating its wastewater discharge permit, including wastewater overflows from a septic tank that reached the lake. The ...

Throw a dart at a map of Tennessee. You will probably hit somewhere that is growing. Nashville’s outskirts are projected to add a quarter to their population in the next 15 years. The Ford Motor ...

All files relating to Robertson County's septic system records are now available to the public online, thanks to a new system that was implemented earlier this month. The digitization project is part ...

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation announced today that it will move its Sullivan County satellite office to its Johnson City Environmental Field Office on July 18. This ...

NASHVILLE - An amended version of a septic tank bill affecting areas where a sewer moratorium is in effect easily passed its first legislative hurdle and is headed to the Tennessee Senate floor. The ...

Families near a slaughterhouse in Bean Station are using bottled water after their well water was contaminated by coliform and E.coli. The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation says the ...

Just weeks before the ICE raid at Southeastern Provision, the Grainger County slaughterhouse faced a crisis of another kind: a sewage system failure and spill that triggered a boil alert for residents ...