INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: Something Stinks in Oak Hill

Oak Hill, Tennessee
by The Oak Hill Tennessee Gazette

Something stinks in Oak Hill.  It isn't just the current city government, which has its own problems.  And it isn't just that smell you experience near Radnor Lake.  We will get to that in a minute.

One of the new candidates for Oak Hill Commissioner also stinks.  Her official name is "Heidi Marie Pflaum."  At least that's the name she registered to vote under.  And that is the name she has been using up until a couple of weeks ago.  It is even the name she listed on her election petition.  However, she is now calling herself "Heidi Campbell."

You could ask why she is running under this assumed name.  Maybe it is to get a higher ballot position.  But there is more to it than that.

An internet search for "Heidi Campbell" doesn't turn up much, just a professor at Texas A&M.  But, a search for Heidi Pflaum turns up much, much more.

Look beyond her testimonial for "Dr. Gary" the Magician and you will find that Heidi has appeared before the Oak Hill Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals many, many times. 

Why has Heidi appeared before the Oak Hill government so many times?  Heidi was building a house on Otter Creek Road, in the watershed for environmentally sensitive Radnor Lake.  This is called the "Radnor Lake Impact Zone". 

If Heidi would connect her house to Metro Sewer, then her sewage would go to the Metro treatment station.  But Heidi did not want to pay to connect to the Metro Sewer. 

Instead, Heidi wanted to put her sewage into the ground behind her house, into an old septic system that flows into Radnor Lake.  It's cheaper that way.  See for yourself in the meeting minutes from 2011 and 2012.  But Oak Hill wouldn't let Heidi use a septic system in the Radnor Lake zone.  Eventually, Heidi got permission from Metro to use the old septic system because Metro didn't care about Radnor Lake. 

Heidi Pflaum wants to save herself a buck and doesn't care if her sewage pollutes Radnor Lake.  Now, the new "Heidi Campbell" is running away from her past.  We asked visitors to Radnor Lake what they thought about Heidi's septic system.  This is what one person said: "There is a mess in Oak Hill, and Heidi Pflaum is making it worse by dumping her mess into Radnor Lake."