The city, as part of its effort to meet terms of a costly Consent Decree with the EPA, is planning to erect three 10-million-gallon sewage storage tanks on Moccasin Bend. The tanks will be just under 55 feet tall from ground level and have a diameter of 195 feet.

The tanks will be on what is now a grassy field at 155 Hamm Road.

It is a half mile from the Moccasin Bend Sewage Treatment Plant and directly across from the entryway to the Moccasin Bend National Archaeological Park.

The site is also at one of the planned terminuses of the Tennessee Riverwalk, that begins at Chickamauga Dam.

Reeves Young, LLC of Sugar Hill, Ga., had the low bid of $46,569,100, plus a $2 million contingency.

The City Council is slated to vote on the resolution on Feb. 5. The matter came up at the Jan. 22 agenda session, but Public Works Administrator Justin Holland asked the council to hold off on discussion of the topic until an issue was worked out dealing with purchasing.

The tanks are designed to go into use when there is a significant wet weather event and hold sewage and runoff that ordinarily might wind up in the nearby Tennessee River.

The city will use the State Revolving Loan Fund to help pay for the project, which is the most expensive work yet in the Consent Decree effort.

It is described as Wet Weather Combined Sewer Storage - Phase 1 due to the possibility for the need for additional tanks later.

Other bidders on the project were J. Cumby Construction of Cookeville and Judy Construction Company of Cynthiana, Ky.