Social Justice and Urban Form, anthropogenic disturbances of the environment
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Mysteries of the
Cumberland River
Utah Excursion
New Orleans at JazzFest 2012 HERE
Beargrass Creek
Grinstead - Lexington Road
CSO 127 Overflow Basin
Smart Rainbarrels
Changes at Bashford Manor on the South Fork at Buechel Branch
Beargrass Greenway Irish Hill:
The showcase greenway to Irish Hill is full of aquatic wildlife albeit pollution tolerant species
Collection of shots of the concrete channelized portion of the South Fork with CSOs
From the confluence of the South and Middle Fork to the Ohio River
Too many unwitting parents bring small children to wade in a septic polluted creek
From the Beargrass Creek Pump Station to the Ohio River
from the Ohio River up the creek
A juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron is born in a creek bed full of septic sewer overflows and a century of industrial waste dumping
From eastern county to Buthchertownthe Middle Fork winds through shopping centers and Olmsted Parks
From Buechel Branch to the concrete channel to Butchertown
A nasty CSO contaminated discharge channel to the Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek
Stinks like sulphurous sewage but MSD says its DOT’s salt contaminated groundwater. See the album from Middle Fork.
Political Structure
Tour the Zorn Avenue water company facility
Some links to CWA laws and a judicial discussion of the scheme of water quality protection Congress enacted.
Updated from time to time-- a discussion of Bills with environmental impacts and the law makers who propose them.
The multistate standards setting body is too controlled by industry to make sufficient strides in cleaning up the Ohio River.
Recent Board of Directors dismissals are another stumble for Louisville’s powerful, politically potent, Metro Sewer Agency
A mega sewer district is being formed that will have authority over multiple counties.
How do you consult with the public about a tidal wave of commercial development in the Floyds Fork watershed?
KWA:
The Kentucky Waterways Alliance wants to be the leader in the Beargrass Creek volunteer citizen watershed advocacy. Where does KWA come from?
Too much PR and not enough PRotection
An article about MSD’s lateral sewer extension agreement with Billtown LLC.
Toxic environment
watershed impacts from turf runoff
Louisville Water Company is investigating the discharge of filter backwash water into Beargrass Creek
MSD is meeting stormwater pollution control rules by funding green infrastructure projects that reduce runoff from parking lots and buildings to reduce overflows from CSOs like this one below Story Avenue in Butchertown.
A coal ash reuse industry is coming to westerns Jefferson County.
“There are real, long term consequences to rock salt’s use for freshwater systems and soils.”
Tire wear particulate enters the environment in massive amounts
60 tons of perchlorate containing fireworks will be detonated over the Ohio River
We have to regroup and commit to change, to save ourselves and the environment
Environmental impacts can be additive and cause permanent loss of crucial players in the the ecological scheme
Land use decisions in the east end Floyds Fork watershed destroy greenspace, cause water pollution.
A photo album of older watershed photos in the Beargrass Creek and Ohio River area
An album of sewer overflow pictures in the Louisville, Kentucky collection system.
From rainfall to sewer overflow, we follow the water in the South Fork of Beargrass Creek.
You have time. Spend a weekend on the Cumberland River below Wolfe Creek Dam
More time on the river
An album of shots from the more than 10 acre park like area between Crescent Hill and I-64
The Cliffs of Clifton in Crescent Hill are a multi-acre abandoned quarry and dumpsite titled to the KY Dept of Transportation. Metro Council woman Tina Ward Pugh should organize a team to clean the place up.
A Kentucky stream in rural Henry County affords beautiful scenes
Winter cold locks the creek in ice. Nature has no mercy?
art on the walls
Person-hole covers?.
Out of Town
Beautiful Mendocino coast of California in 2011
Blog
Social Justice
Land use decisions in the east end destroy greenspace, cause water pollution and require overstretched public infrastructure. Meanwhile, the urban core is left in decay.
SILENT CRISIS - LOUISVILLE WEST END2007-2011
click HERE
Predatory Municipal Property Maintenance Code creates $ 18 million lien on poor folks homes
Metro Council and big auto
$ 10 million Industrial Revenue Bond issue finances Brazilian iron forger supplier to Ford
Bridges Project
Metro Council dances to tycoons tune
Disparate development policy spends $750 million on downtown amenities while poverty increases
Flawed Louisville bridges plan puts east end bridge over LWC
drinking water intake. Toxic road runoff over the top of the riverbank filtration project.
Demand Transparency
in the $ 1.12 billion
KY-IN Bridges Project
Faceless LLC’s profiting as big names push bridges
Mass Transit
moving to sustainable transport
in a North South line
cheap overhead electric trolley was part of Old Louisville
An album of photos from Floyds Fork in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Scenes near the confluence with Salt River near Shepherdsville in Bullitt County.
A paddle up Harrod’s Creek
where the East End Bridge will cross over
Life in Utah’s desert canyons reminds us how essential fresh water is for life.
A hike along the palisades of the Kentucky River