Waste Water Treatment Plant The Tribe is in the process of increasing the capacity of its Waste Water Treatment System (Sewer Plant). The current facility is working at approximately 2.8 Million gallons per day. The new facility is expected to be able to handle six million gallons per day. The Tribe is now working on design for the facility. Please check this website for further details for plans and bid packages. We do not expect to have this released prior to July 2010. At the time of release, contracts with the designing engineering firm have not been executed. Please check back for updates on the Engineering firm of record. Old Number Four Sewer Line In conjunction with the Soco sewer line, a new sewer line must be constructed to the waste water treatment plant. This line is projected to be 10-thousand linear feet long. It will take off from the end point of the Soco Sewer line. The difference with this line is that it will not only carry the flow of the Soco line it will also carry the flow coming from central Cherokee through the Big Cove community. This line will carry at least 2/3 of the daily flow of influent. The preliminary engineering report has not been completed for this project nor the environmental clearance or right of ways. There is considerable work by the Tribe prior to this project being considered for design by an engineering firm. This line could be expected to be as large as 60 to 72 inches in portions. This line will run through portions of the Old Number Four road, thus the name of the project. This project will be complex for the designer and the contractor for construction. This project is federal funded through the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians maintains equipment and locations for its two-way communications for police, fire, EMS, and emergency management and other public safety agencies.
This project covers the last 2 miles of Soco Creek with sewer line. The existing sewer line is inadequate to handle the new flow that will be coming from the Casino expansion and new housing from Rough Branch down through U.S. Highway 19 and the Wolftown and Painttown communities. The sewer line will begin at or near the Wendy’s in Cherokee and follow Soco Creek past Food Lion on to where it meets the Oconaluftee River.
The Youth Center Program has been searching for a site to construct a youth center. In earlier efforts the community had sought to place a facility next to the existing Jacob Cornsilk building in the Snowbird Community in Graham County.
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The EOC is now under construction. The general contractor is Hickory Construction of Hickory, North Carolina. 
The Big Y Community Building is near complete. With some minor construction to the building it will be complete and almost ready to inhabit by the sub-division of Wolftown. The facility will house a new gymnasium and community meeting facilities along with kitchen area.
Since our last update, we have completed the kitchen and it is now functional for the center. We have had to have some temporary closures in the building to disconnect and reconnect utilities. We have also had to move kitchen equipment and establish the new kitchen headquarters. 
There is a rising number of diabetics each year if not by the month on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. In the late 1990’s research indicated that one out of every three people over the age of 40 had diabetes in the Eastern Band of Cherokee. That rate is increasing according to the Tribe’s Department of Health and Medical Delivery.