The Fairfield Glade Community Club development is certainly big enough for a wastewater treatment plant with a conventional stream discharge.The trouble is that the resort community and its 4,950 homes and 400 timeshare units lie in the watershed of the Obed Wild and Scenic River. Creeks in the area flow to the Obed, and the Tennessee Department of Environmental Conservation (TDEC) won’t allow discharge to them.So the Fairfield Glade developers turned to the soil. An extensive facultative lagoon series feeds a spray irrigation system and, more recently, a drip dispersal system cut into some 30 acres of forested land. The
