MSD repairing sewer line at Harrods Creek
MSD is at work repairing a sewer line break in Prospect. The break is in a section of the 30-inch force main that runs near and 35-feet under Harrods Creek behind Harrods Run Road and Timber Creek Court. Residents of Prospect are asked to conserve water usage and avoid Harrods Creek during repairs.
Since the break in the pipe has caused sewage to spill into Harrods Creek, the public should avoid contact with the creek from the Harrods Run Road area to the Ohio River. MSD customers will not see any problems with their sewer service.
MSD’s Shawnee Park CSO project honored by Design-Build Institute
The Shawnee Park Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Basin project, also known as the Southwestern Parkway CSO Basin, was nationally recognized and honored with three awards at the Design-Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) 2019 Design-Build Conference & Expo The awards received are as follows:
• National Award of Excellence in the Water/Wastewater category (Top honor – one awarded per year in the United States)
• Best in Design for Engineering in all categories (Top honor – one awarded per year in the United States)
MSD Portland CSO Basin now in service
Underground storage is part of MSD’s endeavor to prevent wastewater from overflowing into Louisville’s waterways. The Portland Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Basin is the last of 10 basins contained in MSD’s Consent Decree. The 10 basins provide a total storage capacity of nearly 195 million gallons, protecting our local waterways and public health and safety. MSD’s Waterway Protection Tunnel, which is under construction, will add another 55 million gallons of storage capacity.
MSD clears dumped furniture from Goose Creek
There are plenty of legal ways to dispose of furniture. Dumping it into a stream isn’t really one of them.
But that was what Louisville MSD faced on Tuesday, August 20, after a report from Louisville Public Works of furniture found in Goose Creek at Westport Road. MSD crews used a “clamshell” truck—commonly utilized in cleaning stormwater basins on the side of roadways—to remove a three-piece sectional, along with a mattress and box spring,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and MSD partner for Beargrass Creek Ecosystem Study
Louisville MSD and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are taking a big step in improving the Beargrass Creek watershed. Today, the two entities announced they are working together on the Three Forks Beargrass Creek Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study, which is one of only six new General Investigation Feasibility Study projects to be selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers nationwide in a competitive pool of applicants for funding. The local project is the only ecosystem restoration and the sole inland project chosen nationwide.
Flood-protection, drainage and wastewater projects to move forward as MSD board approves annual rate adjustment
Important safety upgrades to two vital water quality treatment centers and continuing our progress in reducing pollution from sewer overflows with proceeds from a rate increase taking effect next month.
MSD’s board outlined a preliminary rate proposal in May and voted Monday, July 29, to approve the increase. It will take effect Thursday, August 1, and will increase the average wastewater bill by $3.47 per month and the average stormwater bill by $0.68 per month.
Fairdale High partnership with MSD continues
Teachers at Fairdale High School are getting a head start on the upcoming school year with a teacher’s conference at Louisville MSD’s Central Maintenance Facility. The event for approximately 50 teachers uses meeting space at the facility.
Louisville leaders convene to release first ever Water Equity Roadmap
By Sharise Horne
MSD Shawnee Park Basin is now in service, preventing up to 20 million gallons of wastewater pollution
Under the Great Lawn in Shawnee Park, sits the MSD Shawnee Park Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Basin. The top of the basin is approximately 12 feet below grade, with three-foot-thick reinforced concrete walls. When it rains, the basin is hard at work protecting the Ohio River, the Park and the neighborhood from combined sewer overflows.
On Friday, June 21, MSD joined Mayor Greg Fischer and Shawnee Park neighbors to celebrate the end of more than two years of construction work on the basin.
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