According to the Kentucky Department of Water, over 70% of our creeks and streams in Fayette County are impaired or polluted. This is a shocking fact, and The Fayette Alliance is committed to help fix the problem.
View the Alliance’s position statement, and learn more about the Water Quality Management Fee and Program.
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We continue to face many challenges in improving our waterways. We’ll keep you posted of all progress and developments here at FayetteAlliance.com
“Sewer line repairs nearing completion”
By Andy Mead, posted August 11, 2010
Excerpt from Kentucky.com
The broken sewer line that had been polluting a creek near Versailles Road was expected to be repaired late Wednesday or early Thursday.
Mark York, a spokesman for the city’s Division of Water Quality, said workers were digging up and replacing 185 feet of the line where they found four leaks. If there had been only one leak, city officials had hoped to repair it by inserting a liner into the 8-inch pipe…Read more at Kentucky.com
“Sewage leaks into Lexington creek: Problem was first reported in July, but city found nothing”
By Andy Mead, posted August 10, 2010
Excerpt from Kentucky.com
Workers were repairing a leaking sewer line Monday at a creek where sewage might have been running into the water for a month or more.
After a report of leaking sewage in early July, a city crew found no sewage flowing and drew up a plan to check the sewer line with a camera, said Mark York, a spokesman for the city’s Division of Water Quality.
That work hadn’t been done when the spill was spotted again Sunday…Read more at Kentucky.com
