Should the city move forward with proposals to build a park on the former Rayovac site?
That’s an issue the board of mayor and aldermen are weighing as the company that owns the 12-acre property wants to donate the land – and a large park facility – to Covington.
The property is located between Douglas Street and South Main, bordering the railroad tracks, and is currently enclosed by a chain link fence.
Spectrum has been in talks with different city leaders over the last four years and the discussions have taken place at two city meetings in the last two weeks.
After a nearly hour-long presentation by the company, a scientist, and a representative from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, the aldermen were not so sure they wanted to proceed but agreed to continue discussing it.
What’s the issue?
The property on which the park would be constructed is the site where manganese was manufactured for disposable batteries from 1947 to 1991.
The site was entered into the TDEC environmental cleanup program in 1998 and was remediated in 2011, which means there was demolition, consolidation and capping of basins drainage improvements were made; and a tree buffer was planted.
There are land use restrictions on the property which prohibit the use of groundwater from the property and excavation activity has to be coordinated with TDEC.
That’s a big deterrent to several aldermen who expressed concerns during the Finance and Administration Committee meeting.
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