The Crossville City Council discusses the Meadow Park Lake Dam project in their work session last night. Members agreed to send a request for a preliminary assessment and a resource survey to their regular meeting agenda for Tuesday, June 9, 2020 for a vote. The requests is in preparing an application to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review for the project.

Currently, Meadow Park Lake Water Treatment Plant has a current capacity of 3.5 million gallons a day with a maximum capacity of 14 million gallons a day. Holiday Hills Water Treatment Plant has a current capacity of 4 million gallons a day with a maximum capacity of 5.5 million gallons a day. That makes a total from the two plants of a current capacity of 7.5 million gallons a day with a maximum capacity of 19.5 million gallons a day. In the reservoirs, Meadow Park Lake has a safe yield of 3.58 million gallons a day, Holliday Hills has a safe yield of 5.34 million gallons a day and Lake Tansi has 3.5 million gallons a day.

The lake was constructed in 1938. If the dam is raised, it would increase the safe yield of water from 3.58 million gallons a day to 4.8 million gallons a day.

According to the water moderate usage forecast, Crossville, West Cumberland Utility District Crab Orchard Utility District and industrial growth will demand 8.06 million gallons of water a day in the year 2037. The number is projected to rise to 10.98 in the year 2067.

According to the water high usage forecast, Crossville, West Cumberland Utility District Crab Orchard Utility District and industrial growth will demand 9.19 million gallons of water a day in the year 2037. The number is projected to rise to 12.05 in the year 2067.

The plan to improve the water supply would come in three phases. Phase one calls for raising Meadow Park Lake dam and relocating the raw water intake there. That will take a projected 39 months to complete. The city is about 2 years away presently from obtaining the needed permits to proceed.

Phase two would expand Meadow Park Lake to 7 million gallons of water a day. That will take an estimated 2 years to complete.

Phase three has two options. Option one would further expand Meadow Park Lake to 12.25 million gallons of water a day, improve the raw water intake at Holliday Hills, install a new treated water distribution line and demolish the Holiday Hills water treatment plant.

Option two is construct a new Holiday Hills water treatment plant that can handle 5.5 million gallons of water a day. That would take two years to complete, according to the report.

If approved, phase one would begin roughly in 2022. Phase two would start in 2030 and Phase three in 2040.