"They need to step up and they need to take blame for what they have done, " says Michelle Bilbrey.

Bilbrey and her family have owned a farm in Pikeville for over 40 years. The family has over 2,000 thousand and grow crops on their property.

Bilbrey says they have more than 800 cattle that drink from the Sequatchie River.

In July of this year, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation found high levels of E. coli in that same river.

Now, TDEC has added an additional violation.

Bilbrey says the mayor's office owes her and other farmers a solution.

"He is our county mayor, " she says, "I own property south of town... my husband and I do." Bilbrey adds, "he owes us an explanation of why we have E. coli in our rivers."

Local 3 did reach out to Pikeville Mayor Phillip Cagl

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