State, city: Raleigh Town Center work harming streams

By , Special to The Daily Memphian Updated: March 21, 2019 12:07 PM CT | Published: March 21, 2019 10:37 AM CT
<strong>City of Memphis stormwater inspectors have discovered water pumps with attached hoses pumping dirty, turbid water from the sediment basin of the construction site of the new $25 million Raleigh Town Center&nbsp;directly into stormwater drains that empty into a Wolf River tributary.</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong>(Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)

City of Memphis stormwater inspectors have discovered water pumps with attached hoses pumping dirty, turbid water from the sediment basin of the construction site of the new $25 million Raleigh Town Center directly into stormwater drains that empty into a Wolf River tributary. (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)

Both state and city inspectors have raised environmental issues in the way that Zellner Construction is handling water runoff in building Raleigh Town Center.

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Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.


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