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5 Celebrating Again in ’22 15 Alcoa Taking Sanitation to the Next Level
A couple months ago, a jumbo-size Python was delivered to
6 Springfield – An Optimized Solution to Sanitary the City of Alcoa Sanitation Services department. It was a Heil
Sewer Overflows & Capacity DuraPack Python, the city’s first automated garbage truck.
The City of Springfield’s yearly average of 100 sanitary sewer
overflows is a thing of the past. Nashville, Tennessee-based 16 TCAPWA/SWANA Conference in Knoxville, Nov. 8-10
Gresham Smith’s solution involved seven sewer rehabilitation 21 Contributors to the Issue
projects, the construction of two new wastewater storage
tanks, and improvements to 40 miles of public sewer lines. 22 Downtown Knoxville Attractions: Music, Food,

8 Kingsport’s Addington Wins 2022 Snoderly Award Adventures Around Every Corner
Anyone who’s spent any amount of time around Buster K. With Downtown Knoxville as the site of this fall’s TCAPWA/
(BK) Addington, has heard this promise “If I can help you, SWANA Annual Conference, attendees will find a wide variety
I will.” BK, an integral part of the City of Kingsport’s Sewer of nearby entertainment, restaurants, shops, and more.
Division since 1990, has won the TCAPWA 2022 Murphy 24 PW Spotlight: Bud McKelvey, Town of Farragut
Snoderly Award. Public Works Director
9 Tennessee Municipal League Award Winners: “A big part of Public Works is staying ahead of the curve.”
McMinnville and Sparta That’s how Public Works Director Bud McKelvey describes
In recognition of strategic efforts made to improve city leading his department. And he’s been doing it since 1987.
services, the Tennessee Municipal League presented the 26 PW Spotlight: Sherry Bennard, City of Munford
Cities of McMinnville and Sparta with this year’s Excellence in Public Works Director
Public Works Awards.
Sherry Bennard, City of Munford’s Public Works Director
12 UT MTAS Welcomes Brad Peters, P.E., since 2020, said she never expected to make a career in
Public Works Consultant the Public Works arena, but her love of public service and
Brad Peters, former Town Engineer/Public Works Director/ assisting her neighbors won her over.
Landfill Manager for the City of Greeneville, has been hired 27 2022 TPWI Class Schedule & Registration Form
as Public Works Consultant with the Municipal Technical
Advisory Service (MTAS), at the University of Tennessee’s 28 Collegedale Getting Creative Post-Pandemic
Institute for Public Service. to Fulfill Vital Equipment Needs
14 Knoxville’s Colorful Bike Lane Sweeper: John Chlarson of UT’s Municipal Technical Advisory Service
assists Collegedale’s Eric Sines in finding creative ways to
Turning Heads, Cleaning Public Spaces purchase city trucks post-pandemic, bypassing supply chain
Knoxville’s new KARCHER bike lane sweeper is a sleek little problems and side-stepping purchasing bottlenecks.
thing, zipping up and down the bike lanes of Downtown
Knoxville and around Market Square. Wearing colorful graphic 30 Local Government Buyers’ Guide
images around her middle, she makes bystanders stop and Cover:Kingsport’s BK Addington received the Murphy Snoderly
stare. Award at the TML Conference in Gatlinburg, Aug. 16th.

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