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TRANSPORTATION

Roads

Morgan County Road Department
Roy Smith, Road Superintendent
228 Flat Fork Road
Wartburg, TN
Phone: 423-346-6661

State Hwy. 62 — runs east to west through the county connecting Morgan County to Oak Ridge & Knoxville (east) and Monterey (west).

US Hwy. 27 — runs north and south through the county and is a major thoroughfare that runs from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Cincinnati Ohio.

Interstate 40 — access is available near the Tri-County Industrial Park in the southern part of the county and also at Harriman, Tennessee.

Interstate 75 — accessible in nearby Scott County.
For information about Tennessee's Roads: website

Rail

Norfolk Southern Corp. Railways website

Air

Rockwood Municipal Airport website
Scott County Municipal Airport website
Big South Fork Airpark website

COMMUNICATIONS

Telephone

ATT Communications website
Highland Telephone Cooperative website
Highland Communications website
Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative. website

LOCAL RADIO

WECO Radio website — Morgan County's local radio station, with a listening audience of 120,000; covers an area from the Sequatchie Valley north to Somerset, KY, and east to west from Monterey to West Knoxville.

ENERGY

Electric

Morgan County receives electrical energy from TVA sources, provided primarily through Plateau Electric Cooperative website. Other cooperatives providing electrical energy to portions of Morgan County:

Harriman Utility Board website
Clinton Utilities Board website
Volunteer Energy Cooperative website
Rockwood Electric Utility website

GAS

Residential and business gas/propane service is provided by Citizens Gas Utility District of Morgan & Scott Counties website.

WATER AND WASTE WATER

Plateau Utility maintains a "state of the art" water plant and reservoir in the Liberty area of Morgan County. Plateau has a total average daily water usage of 1 million gallons with a total production capacity of 2.4 million gallons per day. Plateau Utility along with Cumberland Utility District provides water for the Sunbright Utility District.

The City of Sunbright and Wartburg both have public sewer systems within their incorporated city limits. The Wartburg System has a current usage of 700,000 gallons per day and total system capacity of 1.3 million gallons per day. For additional information please refer to contacts listed below.

PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY

Law Enforcement

Morgan County Sheriff Department
Sheriff Glen Freytag
423-346-6262

Wartburg Police Department
Chief Teddy Bales
423-346-7090

Sunbright Police Department
Chief Alan Dagley
423-628-6091

Fire

Morgan County E911
EMA Director Jody Zorsch
Dial 911 or 423-346-0911 for emergencies
423-346-1003, press 5 FIRE

Chestnut Ridge Fire Department
Chief Johnny Freytag
423-965-3922

Clear Fork Volunteer Fire Department
Chief Gerald Hanwright
423-627-4182

Coalfield Volunteer Fire Department
Chief James Godwin
865-435-3122

Deer Lodge Volunteer Fire Department
Chief Al Guy
423-965-3781

Joyner Volunteer Fire Department
Chief Mike Vann
423-324-6931

Local Newspaper

Morgan County News website —a subsidiary of Roane Co. News, published weekly with a circulation of approximately 4800

Television

Comcast Cable website Local Channel 12 (Phone: 931-445-3369)

Spectra Energy, also maintains an east TN natural gas pipeline through the county. website