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Loan: $1,250,000 |
Outline of Need: Areas surrounding the Town of Oneida were experiencing ground and surface water contamination from private septic system failures. State health officials had posted public warnings in the neighborhoods and near streams. |
The Town of Oneida is in Scott County just south of the Tennessee/Kentucky border, 82 miles northwest of Knoxville and 170 mile east of Nashville. Scott is a Persistent Poverty County, High Unemployment Area, and contains part of the Scott-McCreary Area Revitalization Team (SMART) EZ/EC Enterprise Community.
How Rural Development Helped:
Rural Development provided funding to connect the affected service area to the Oneida Wastewater Treatment System by constructing 2 miles of gravity sewer, 10 miles of force main, a pumping station, and 190 grinder pumps. New users are along Sand Cut Road north of Oneida, State Route 27 from Cook Avenue to Industrial Lane, the Ponderosa area, Meadow Creek Subdivision, and the West Hills area.
The Results:
The project provided sewer collection service to 200 low-income families in areas north and south of the Town of Oneida. It eliminated the public health hazard from contaminated ground and surface water in the areas served by the project.
The line along Sand Cut Road north of Oneida also connected to a sewer transmission main from the Town of Winfield, tying the two systems together.
This project improved ground and surface water contamination in area surface water bodies, including Lake Elizabeth and Pine Creek, with potential improvements reaching into the Big South Fork National Recreation Park downstream.
Pictured, above: (L) Johnny Acres, Manager of Oneida's Water and Waste Water facilities, Ruth Tackett, Rural Development Tennessee State Director, and Jack Lay, Mayor of Oneida; (R) State Director Tackett talking with Oneida High School Environthon Team members.
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