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Public Education & Involvement Important for Clean Watershed

By Knox van Nagell | November 20th, 2009 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog

“Lexington sewer rates rise, but few understand the reasons why”

Excerpt from Kentucky.com, posted Nov. 20, 2009
By Andy Mead, amead@herald-leader.com

Photo by Pablo Alcala, Herald-Leader Staff. HERALD-LEADER - Contaminants such as motor oil or anything that spills into a storm drain flows directly into waterways. Wolf Run Creek at Valley Park in Lexington is one such destination for rain and other runoff that gets into the storm-sewer system.? Kentucky.com

Photo by Pablo Alcala, Herald-Leader Staff. HERALD-LEADER - Contaminants such as motor oil or anything that spills into a storm drain flows directly into waterways. Wolf Run Creek at Valley Park in Lexington is one such destination for rain and other runoff that gets into the storm-sewer system. Kentucky.com

Paying for sewers is taking an increasing bite out of the wallets of Lexington residents, but most of us are blissfully unaware of what is going on beneath our feet.

A survey commissioned by local officials shows, for example, that three out of four people don’t know the difference between sanitary and storm sewers.

(In the sanitary sewer system, water from a toilet, sink or shower goes into one set of pipes and then to a treatment plant before reaching a creek. Rainwater that runs off lawns and driveways goes into the storm sewer system, then directly into a creek.)  Read more at Kentucky.com

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