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Kansas City’s Sewer System – “Where We’ve Come From and Where We’re Headed”

Presentation by Lara Isch, Kansas City Water Services

Lara Isch, Water Quality Educator for Kansas City Water Services, will discuss the history of Kansas City’s combined and separate sewer systems, the development of the federally mandated Overflow Control Program and how the program aims to improve water quality and reduce sewer overflows over the next 22 years.

rain garden

As part of the Middle Blue River Basin Green Solutions Pilot Project, curb extension rain gardens like this were installed to store excess stormwater runoff from streets. Photo courtesy of KC Water Services.

Time and Place

Wednesday, March 12, 2014
7:00 pm

Westport CoffeeHouse Theater
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Presentation by Lara Isch, Water Quality Educator for Kansas City Water Services

Wednesday, March 12, 2014
New Location! Westport Coffeehouse Theater – 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. Kansas City, MO
6 p.m. Social Hour

7 p.m. Presentation

Click here to download flier (pdf)

outfall

One of Kansas City’s 90 remaining combined sewer outfalls during a wet weather overflow event

Work has begun on an unprecedented 25-year, $2.5 billion project to reduce overflows from Kansas City’s combined and separate sewer systems. Kansas City’s largest ever infrastructure project, it is utilizing a laundry list of green surface projects to reduce stormwater as well as underground infrastructure to separate combined sewer systems.

Lara Isch, Water Quality Educator for Kansas City Water Services, will discuss the history of Kansas City’s combined and separate sewer systems, the development of the federally mandated Overflow Control Program and how the program aims to improve water quality and reduce sewer overflows over the next 22 years.

She will also discuss the results of the Middle Blue River Basin Green Solutions Pilot Project, step one in the Overflow Control Program.

Directions

Westport CoffeeHouse – 4010 Pennsylvania Kansas City, Mo – www.westportcoffeehouse.com

The Westport CoffeeHouse is in the Westport entertainment area, midtown KC, south of downtown and north of the Plaza.  The main intersection is Westport Rd and Broadway.  From this intersection, go west on Westport Rd one block to Pennsylvania. Turn north (right).

OR you can get there from the intersection of Southwest Trafficway and Westport Rd.  Go east on Westport Rd to Pennsylvania. Turn north (left).

Westport Coffee House is approximately one block down on the west side of Pennsylvania.  Parking can be had either south of the coffee house in the large parking lot or just north of the coffee house alongside the building.  Enter through Green Room Burgers or Westport CoffeeHouse.

Resources and Links

The Big Muddy Speakers Series in Kansas City

is hosted by these wonderful partners!

Thanks to all of our venue hosts for making this possible! Click here for a list of upcoming presentations» The Big Muddy Speaker Series is also held monthly in Rocheport and St. Charles.

Recordings of Presentations

Kansas City Digital Video has been recording Big Muddy Speaker Series presentations. These are available on their website at this link. Some contain synchronized powerpoint presentations. We will be posting these to the archived presentation pages on bigmuddyspeakers.org. Thanks Micheal Morgan and crew for putting this important archive online! The Big Muddy Speaker Series is partially funded by the Columbia Ecological Services Field Office (USFWS) and the Mo. Dept. of Conservation.