Nobody knows for sure how the city of Bell Buckle, Tenn., got it its name. What’s certain is that the Bell Buckle Water and Sewer Department is successfully employing a programmed approach to attack the deficiencies of its wastewater system while protecting the wallets of ratepayers.The city of fewer than 500 people is located about 50 miles southeast of Nashville. Much of the sewer infrastructure was built in the late 1950s and is reaching the limits of its service life. The 6-mile gravity-fed sewer system consists to a large extent of clay pipe and brick-lined manholes now subject to inflow
