Tag Archives: metro water services
Bright & Early: Mountains And Molehills Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A quick tour of this morning’s headlines: Davidson County Clerk John Arriola is likely breathing a sigh of relief this morning as the Metro Council deferred a bill calling for his resignation at last night’s meeting. The bill wouldn’t actually require him to take any action, but his office is already under [...]
Bright & Early: Blast From The Past Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Everyone in Tennessee (and probably most people outside of Tennessee, by now) knows that there are some unfortunate things that go down at our state’s Legislative Plaza. However, we did not realize that the actual plaza and War Memorial Building aren’t even ADA-compliant. Despite completing some hefty renovations within the past five [...]
Bright & Early: Ppppttthhhhhhbbbbbttt Edition
Good morning, Nashville. News Channel 5′s investigative team continues to dig up dirt on Davidson County Clerk John Arriola (whose last name, by the way, is one of our least favorite things to type in a news item each day), this time bringing to light the taxpayer-funded $33,000 Chevy Tahoe he drives instead of the more [...]
Bright & Early: Get Real Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Over the weekend, a vandal struck the Tennessee State Capitol building and spraypainted messages along the outside walls and sidewalks. The messages said things like “Get out,” “RIP Tony Al” and “Welcome to the jungle,” along with some anarchy signs. Police weren’t able to identify the person from security tapes, though they [...]
Bright & Early: Long Way Home Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Musicians Hall of Fame (not to be confused with the Country Music Hall of Fame) could finally open its doors again–inside the Municipal Auditorium. The attraction shut down last year after a particularly nasty battle with the MDHA in which the city bought up and demolished that entire section of town [...]
Bright & Early: Troubled Water Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been two years since Metro started up a program to deal with the backlog of stormwater issues, tacking a special fee onto water bills intended to generate enough revenue to pay for all the fixes. So far, just 246 stormwater projects of 3,277 have been completed and some folks are concerned [...]
Happy Hour: We Got Our Flippy-Floppies
Long live the KR Harrington water treatment plant! It’s finally back up and running, as Mayor Dean announced today, but let’s not all rush out and wash our cars and/or water our lawns and/or fill our swimming pools and/or tap the fire hydrants for fun just yet. Metro Water officials are still asking us to [...]
What About The Water? [Flood 2010]
We’ve been getting lots of questions over the last few days about what’s going on with water conservation and why no one is talking about it anymore. We took a quick trip over to Metro Water’s website to consult the water measure infographic and found that we’re actually in pretty good shape. Thanks to all [...]
Happy Hour: Look For The Warning Signs
All the water main breaks (a total of 60 so far) finally got to Metro Water Services, and this morning they announced that they’ll be replacing more than half of the city’s water infrastructure. [WKRN] The demand for certain GM cars has seemingly risen and the automotive giant is now considering reopening a few plants [...]
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