Combined Sewer Overflows

De Leon & Primmer to work with Smoketown residents on redesigning...

Mark your calendars for a very important meeting on Wednesday, March 16. Currently under construction in Smoketown, the Metropolitan Sewer District's (MSD) Logan Street CSO...

Smoketown residents voice concerns over MSD’s Logan Street CSO Basin

The people of Smoketown have been ignored. As one of twelve neighborhoods scheduled to receive a combined sewer overflow (CSO) basin, the Metropolitan Sewer...

It’s time for MSD to reinvest the $4 million it skimmed...

As far as I can tell, Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) owes Smoketown at least four million dollars. Let me tell you why. On November 16,...

How planting a garden in the middle of a street in...

The best infrastructure projects aren't single-minded—instead they solve many problems with a single design gesture. One of the top many-problem-one-solution projects we've seen is also among Louisville's...

How will the Portland Wharf Area Basin affect Louisville’s waterfront? Find...

Big changes are coming to one of the most historic parts of Louisville: the old Portland Wharf. Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District is holding a...

A proposal to dress up MSD’s planned Logan Street CSO Basin...

At the Shelby Park Germantown Rail Corridor meeting in July, representatives of the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) introduced the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) solution...

How MSD’s Project WIN aims to eliminate Louisville’s combined sewer overflow...

Waterway Improvements Now—also known as Project WIN—is the slogan-slash-acronym for the Metropolitan Sewer District’s latest initiative to reduce water pollution and overflows from Louisville’s...

Soaking Into A Soggy City: Great Flash Flood of 2009

So in less than a year, Louisville has had a major windstorm, major ice storm, another pretty big windstorm, and now a torrential bout...