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MSD proposes 50/50 credit-sharing IGAs with municipalities to permit development while reducing sewer backups
Summary
Metropolitan Sewer District deputy director Reese Johnson proposed a strategy to reduce sewer backups by identifying hydraulic clusters ('Larissas'), removing extraneous private-side flow, and crediting verified public-side removals to municipalities (Sharonville IGA on Thursday). MSD proposed a standard 50/50 split of required flow reductions.
Reese Johnson, deputy director and chief engineer for the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD), presented a new SBU (sewer-backup) strategic risk reduction initiative on Jan. 27 that pairs MSD hydraulic analysis with municipal action to reduce private-side inflow and enable development in constrained areas.
Johnson said MSD identified clusters of recurrent backups—nicknamed 'Larissas'—and condensed an initial set of about 474 clusters to roughly 200 discrete areas that require management. By tracing upstream hydraulics, MSD can quantify the gallons per day that must be removed to…
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