Water Notices and Hearings

July 08, 2025

• NRS24.231 - John Patrick Fulkrod proposes construction of a private access 10-foot by 23-foot concrete boat ramp extending at least five (5) feet below the high-water mark into the South Fork Holston River in Bristol, Sullivan County.

• NRS25.038 - The City of Pigeon Forge proposes to withdrawal 13.45 MGD at a maximum rate of 10,000 GPM from Douglas Reservoir in Sevier County. The purpose of the work is for municipal water supply.

• NRS25.048 – The City of Memphis proposes rehabilitation of seven utility stream crossings with exposed sewer lines, scour holes, and bank erosion. Work in Shelby County includes the installation of grade control structures and bank stabilization using articulated concrete matting, reinforced turf matting, and grouted riprap.
• MMXXV-027 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).

July 3, 2025

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)
• NRS25.097 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District proposes to perform maintenance dredging of the federally authorized navigation channel and in-river placement in Fort Loudoun Lake, at Post Oak Island located at Tennessee River Mile 632.0 in Knox and Blount Counties.

• NRS25.098 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District proposes to perform maintenance dredging of the federally authorized navigation channel and in-river placement of dredged material in Fort Loudoun Lake, at Looney Island located at Tennessee River Mile 643.0 in Knoxville, Tennessee, in Knox County.

July 1, 2025

• MMXXV-026 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).
• NRS25.111 - Madison County Highway Department proposes the replacement of 48 culverted crossings throughout the county. Impacts occur in the North Fork Forked Deer River, South Fork Forked Deer River, and Lower Hatchie River Watersheds.
• Notice of Public Hearing - Pump and Haul State Operating Permit (SOP-25016) to the Water and Wastewater Authority of Wilson County to serve the North Central Elementary School.

June 27, 2025

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)

June 24, 2025

• NRS25.078 – John Compton proposes to dredge approximately 635 cubic yards (350 cubic yards of channel sediment and 285 cubic yards of landward excavation) of Fort Loudoun Reservoir in Knox County to allow water vehicle access, install 485 linear feet of riprap for stabilization, and install a water intake structure for irrigation.
• MMXXV-025 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).

June 17, 2025

• NRS25.046 - The City of Sevierville Water & Sewer Department proposes to increase its drinking water withdrawal from the French Broad River in Sevier County from 9 to 12 million gallons per day.

• NRS25.083 - Charms LLC proposes fill of 1.38 acres of wetland in the Lower Hatchie River watershed for the expansion of a food manufacturing facility in Tipton County. Compensatory mitigation for wetland impacts of 1.28 acres will be with the purchase of 2.76 wetland credits from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation Hatchie River Wetland Mitigation Bank.
• MMXXV-024 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).

June 13, 2025

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)

June 10, 2025

• NRS25.051 - Tennessee Department of Transportation proposes unavoidable permanent impacts to 60 linear feet of Indian Creek for hard armoring of bed and bank with Class C rip rap associated with scour repair and infrastructure protection in Hickman County.

• NRS25.059 - Atmos Energy Corporation proposes permanent impacts to 0.028 acres of wetlands by cut and fill, temporary impacts to 23 linear feet of wetland by hydraulic directional drilling, and to 87 linear feet of stream by open trench utility crossing and hydraulic directional drilling under streams. Impacts are associated with the removal of an existing 4-inch steel gas pipeline and installation of new 8-inch steel gas pipeline in Obion County.
• MMXXV-023 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).
• Notice of Public Hearing for TNG640000 - General NPDES Permit for Discharge of Filter Backwash and Sedimentation Basin Washout from Water Treatment Plants to waters of the state.

June 03, 2025

• NRS22.288 Notice of Determination -This notice sets out TDEC’s determination that degradation of Exceptional Tennessee Waters resulting from habitat alteration associated with a proposed intake and water withdrawal from the Duck River proposed in the §401 Water Quality Certification and Aquatic Resource Alteration Permit application by the City of Spring Hill is necessary to accommodate important economic or social development in the area.

• NRS24.244 – Pamela Brown proposes to install 50 feet of riprap and 100 feet of redi-rock retaining wall on Chickamauga Reservoir in Rhea County for bank stabilization. No mitigation is required.
  
• MMXXV-022 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).

May 30, 2025

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)
• Notice of Public Hearing - Proposed Establishment of Tennessee’s Aquatic Resource Alteration General Permits for Non-isolated and Isolated Wetlands. June 30th, 2025 at 1pm Central.
  • Rationale regarding the issuance of two General Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits for wetland impacts.
  • Information Session Presentation

May 27, 2025

• MMXXV-021 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).
• SOPC00000 - Notice of Public Hearing on the issuance of the Animal Feeding Operation General Permit

May 22, 2025

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)

May 20, 2025

• MMXXV-020 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).
• NRS25.069 - Stream Mitigation Development, LLC proposes to develop a stream and wetland compensatory mitigation bank in Meigs County. The bank proposes to generate approximately 5,999.1 functional feet of stream lift and functional lift to 5.32 acres of wetland using various restoration and enhancement techniques. Impacts include 11,860 linear feet of stream work and 6.06 acres of wetland work.

• NRS25.076 - Merus LLC proposes impacts to 0.07 acres of wetlands and 1,882 linear feet of an unnamed tributary to Glade Creek for industrial development in Wilson County. Compensatory stream mitigation will be provided through purchase of 196 functional foot stream credits at the Harpeth River Mitigation Bank, 408.9 functional foot stream mitigation credits at the Lucky Landing Stream Mitigation Bank, and 145.1 functional foot stream credits from the Brady Branch Stream Mitigation Bank.

• NRS25.093 – The Tennessee Department of Transportation has conducted repairs to the State Route 67 bridge over Doe River in Carter County under emergency authorization. Work includes repair of undermined piers, cracks in substructure units, lifting and shoring of the bridge, and removal of timber debris accumulation. Temporary impacts to Doe River and Mill Race for access will be removed after construction and the area restored to pre-construction conditions.
• Notice of Pubic Hearing 25-004 - SOP-24025 - Operation of wastewater reuse system for restricted urban reuse. The applicant proposes taking up to 13.5 MGD of treated effluent from the Memphis T.E. Maxson wastewater treatment plant and providing additional activated sludge biological treatment with nutrient removal and membrane treatment to produce up to 13 MGD of water for the xAI Colossus data center, TVA Allen Combined Recycle Plant and Nucor Steel Memphis Facility to use for evaporative cooling.
  • Fact Sheet on Water Quality State Operating Permit SOP-24025

May 16, 2025 

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)

May 13, 2025

• MMXXV-019 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).
• NRS24.177 – City of Memphis proposes impacts to 170 linear feet of an unnamed tributary to Johns Creek in Shelby County for the removal of an existing 141-foot concrete pipe and replacement with 100 feet of box culvert and 70 feet of riprap lined aprons. No mitigation is required.

• NRS24.229 – Ray Jefferies proposes the excavation of 0.10 acres wetland and 100 feet of an Unnamed Tributary to Paint Creek in Greene County for the construction of a private pond not to exceed dimensions of 40 feet by 100 feet and 6 feet in depth. Impacts are to Exceptional Tennessee Waters and do not require mitigation

• NRS25.052 - Loudon Utilities Board proposes the installation of two manholes within 50-feet of an unnamed tributary to Watts Bar Reservoir in Loudon County associated with construction of a new pump station, including a gravity sewer with two manholes within 50-feet of the tributary and an open trench force main crossing.

• NRS25.058 – AT&T proposes crossing 51 streams ad 6 wetlands via Horizontal Directional Drilling for the installation of fiber optic infrastructure spanning 41 miles across Sumner, Davidson, and Robertson counties.

May 09, 2025

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)

May 06, 2025

• MMXXV-018 - Notice Requesting Public Comments on Draft Permit Actions (Individual and General NPDES Permits, State Operation Permits & Pretreatment Program).
• Notice of Pubic Hearing 25-002 - TN0002038; On June 10, 2025 the Division of Water Resources will hold a public hearing on the issuance of TN0002038 for Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.. The proposed treatment and discharge of wastewater from Fenton's process, laboratory facilities, laundry facility, fuel production facilities, commercial development line (CDL), miscellaneous, blended low enriched uranium preparation facility (BLEU/BPF), development laboratories and decommissioning activities from a nuclear fuel manufacturing and uranium recovery facility.
• NRS24.099 - Tennessee Department of Transportation has conducted repairs and replacement of a collapsed culvert on Gray Creek under emergency authorization. Permanent impacts are to 340.7 linear feet of stream and temporary impacts to 190 linear feet of in Sequatchie County.

• NRS24.111 - Tennessee Department of Transportation proposes permanent impacts to 193.8 linear feet of Bradley Creek, temporary impacts to 138 feet of an unnamed tributary to Bradley Creek, and permanent impacts to 0.001 acres and temporary impacts to 0.052 acres of wetland associated with removal and replacement of two SR-127 bridges in Coffee County. Stream mitigation will be provided onsite through relocation and restoration of 325 feet of stream with natural channel design and purchase of 21.6 functional feet credits from Duck River Stream Mitigation Bank.

• NRS24.227 - North Stewart Utility District proposes to withdraw from Barkley Reservoir in Stewart County at a maximum rate of 2.0 MGD. The purpose of the work is for municipal water supply.

• NRS25.084 – The Tennessee Department of Transportation has repaired a large portion of State Route 13 roadway embankment failure under emergency authorization due to recent intense rain events. The repair consists of riprap and rock placed on the slope of the roadway and 10 linear feet of streambank stabilization with riprap on a tributary to Pruette Branch in Humphreys County.

• NRS25.089 – Tennessee Department of Transportation has been authorized to conduct emergency repairs to State Route 195 Bridge over Jones Creek in Fayette County. A 15-foot by 6-foot and 5-foot deep collapse in the decking of the bridge has been patched and accumulated drift removed from the inlet.

May 02, 2025

• Notice of Decision for Individual Aquatic Resource Alteration Permits (Natural Resources Unit)