The City of Sweetwater will be starting use of its new Delta Alert notification system this week. The system will send an automated message to participants' phone numbers or e-mails warning citizens of upcoming weather dangers, traffic closures, missing person alerts, etc.

Residents included in the alert system will receive an automated message on your home phone line, as filed with the Monroe County Emergency 9-1-1 system starting next week.

If you have a home phone number at your residence inside Sweetwater, you will automatically be included in this system. You may opt out of receiving any messages by calling City Hall at 423- 337-6979.

If you have a cell phone number or email address that you would like to receive the alerts on, you will need to sign up via the website at www.deltalert.com, which is linked from the city's website at www.sweetwatertn.net or the city's facebook page. 

You must have an e-mail address to log into the system. You will create a password and enter what phone numbers and e-mails you would like to be contacted on. You also have the option to opt-out of the system entirely or opt-out of any announcement that is not coded as an emergency. Again, if you are a Sweetwater citizen and do not want to register yourself online, you may call City Hall and they can assist you.

The City of Sweetwater may utilize the system to notify citizens of both emergency and non-emergency events, some examples may include:

Emergency messages:

•Weather alerts

•Missing Child Alerts

•Traffic delay alerts (such as a major wreck)

•Missing Person Alert

•Fire/Hazmat incidents

•Non-emergency alerts: Construction/Paving notices, such as the need to move vehicles off a road that will be paved, special events (festivals, parades, etc), and minor traffic delays.