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Resident urges investigation after extended sewer work, service disruptions in Rebecca Place
Summary
A Rebecca Place resident told the council the contractor on a city sanitary-sewer project left unfinished work on Laura Place for nearly 10 weeks, broke the street’s main water service, severed his home's fiber line, and said his wife's vehicle was damaged in what he described as contractor error; he asked the city manager and water-quality staff to investigate.
At the April 2 Cookeville City Council meeting, resident Robert Bourne described nearly 10 weeks of unfinished sanitary-sewer construction on Laura Place in the Rebecca Place subdivision and asked council and city management to investigate project management and the contractor's performance.
Bourne said the contractor severed the neighborhood’s main water service early in the project, causing a multi-hour outage, and later cut his…
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