Of course the question begs, why the sudden change in policy? Nearly all water in the LCUB system comes from the Tennessee River. There's been no reports of the river drying up. Maybe the utility has just decided to conserve water. But the odds seem to be going in the direction that Lenoir City has allowed so much residential development in such a short amount of time, the utility can't keep up with the demand. But that was easy to predict. When they add thousands of new residential units to a small system, problems were bound to arise. And here's a flash, more problems are on the way, traffic, roads, water run off, medical availability, schools, law enforcement and on and on will be impacted. I'm sure everyone knows, Lenoir City mayor, Tony Aikens, is the chairman of LCUB?
In the coming months and years, Lenoir City and north end county residents are going to see more and more issues like this coming with the city's irresponsible development policies of allowing unrestricted development with no consideration to providing for infrastructure improvements, it was inevitable.
Below is a link to the LCUB policy including enforcement of the new policy.
