City Public Works had to make a $430,000 emergency purchase after a sludge pump stopped working and then the backup pump also failed.

Brent Goldberg, city chief financial officer, said the failure was at station #1.

He said after the two failures occurred, the sludge was routed to station #2. However, it had to pump far beyond its capacity.

Mr. Goldberg said, in order to prevent waste from having to be dumped into the Tennessee River with the overuse of the station #2 pump, it was necessary on May 31 to acquire two progressive cavity pumps and grinders for station #1. 

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