By Walter F. Roche Jr.
A Greene County chemical firm is seeking a two month delay in the installation of a retention pond which will reduce excess nitrogen runoffs at its Midway facility.
In an Oct. 24 letter to an official of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Dylan Charles, US Nitrogen's plant manager, wrote that delays in contractor availability made it impossible to meet the next day's deadline.
The Oct. 25 deadline was set a year ago when the company filed a plan to curb excess nitrogen/nitrate concentrations at one of its outfalls.
As Charles wrote, the excesses beyond permitted levels were detected at an outfall from a detention pond.
According to Charles, the corrective action plan calls for installation of a lined stormwater detention pond. All the necessary supplies are already on site and installation of the liner was scheduled for this week.
Finally, he concluded a new pump must be installed.
"Due to contractor availability," Charles wrote that it will take until Dec. 31 for the project to be completed, two months beyond the original deadline.
The request came by email one day before the original deadline.
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