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Trevor Guy connects pipe to the boring head as Elizabethton replaces about 2,000 feet of galvanized water lines with polyethylene plastic pipes. (Photo By Martin Cherry)
Elizabethton, Tennessee, has merged its separate water and wastewater divisions into a single Water Resources Department and is realizing synergies, cost savings and long-overdue rehabilitation of its water and sewer lines.
Water Resources General Manager Johann Coetzee says the...