By Walter F. Roche Jr.
An environmental consultant has resubmitted plans to Tennessee regulators for a bioassessment of the Nolichucky River near the point where millions of gallons of industrial wastewater per month are discharged into the waterway.
The 12-page plan, including charts and other data, was submitted Monday to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. The plan, which appears identical to a plan submitted July 9, was submitted by Dinkins Biological Consulting LLC in behalf of US Nitrogen LLC.
The filing details where samples will be collected upstream and downstream from milemarker 20.8, where US Nitrogen discharges wastewater from its Midway chemical manufacturing facility.
For comparison purposes samples will also be collected from the Powell River, downstream of the island below McDowell Shoal at milemarker 106.5.
Samples collected from all sites will be analyzed by Pennington Associates in Cookeville.
Dinkins officials did not respond to a request for comment on why the testing plans were submitted for a second time.
TDEC officials called on US Nitrogen to perform the bioassessment only after local environmental activist Park Overall pointed out that the test was overdue and required under the company permit.
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