Answer: If you live in Fayette County, you live in one of nine watersheds. A watershed is an area that drains into a specific creek or river. (Kentucky.com)
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.
- Learn how water quality issues affect your neighborhood.
- View a map of Fayette County’s nine watersheds.
We continue to face many challenges in improving our waterways. We’ll keep you posted of all progress and developments here at FayetteAlliance.com
“New high water marks raise pollution awareness: Signs will help residents know their watersheds”
By Andy Mead, posted August 17, 2010
Excerpt from Kentucky.com
If you live in Lexington, you live in one of nine watersheds, and eight of them are polluted.
You might have contributed to that pollution by using too many chemicals on your lawn, not picking up after your dog or blowing leaves and grass clippings into the nearest storm sewer.
Whether you did those things or your neighbor did, it’s costing you money. That’s because the federal government sued the city over the polluted creeks, causing the city to raise sanitary sewer fees last year and to start collecting a new storm sewer fee this year.
As part of an agreement that settled the suit, the city is educating people about the specific watersheds in which they live…Read more at Kentucky.com
Map of Fayette County’s nine watersheds
http://bgpride.org/documents/watersheds.pdf
We’re looking for a map of Fayette County’s nine watersheds and we’ll post it here as soon as we locate one!
Is there a map of the 9 watersheds? The article asks the question “Do you live in one of Fayette Counties watersheds?” but after reading the full piece at Kentucky.com i don’t know any more about how to answer that question.