MSD Wastewater Plan

Some of you may not have read the Courier article in regards to MSD wastewater treatment plants on Saturday April 5, 2008. To summarize the wastewater treatment plant in J town, and others, is overwhelmed and cannot handle the flow it was designed to. In short it is overloaded and has been for years according to the article. This has created a limited amount of growth potential to J Town and is a serious problem for them.

Why is this relevant to our area?

Simple Mayor Abramson is quoted as talking about one option to eliminate their problem. To quote from the article:

"Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson said he's been told that issues involving the plants are being worked out. One potential remedy to the Jeffersontown plant situation is to turn it into a pumping station and send its sewage to the newer, bigger West County Wastewater Treatment plant on the Ohio River in southwest Jefferson County.

"We want to ensure the infrastructure exists in the community for planned residential, retail, commercial and industrial growth," the mayor said."

Of course Henderson and Blackwell will support whatever the Mayor decides as they always do.

One question though.

If we allow all the sewage to be force fed here, what does this do for SOUTHWEST residential, retail, commercial, and industrial growth?

Are we not allowed to grow and prosper? We have been forced to the wayside as a favorite dumping ground and low income housing area over the last few years since merger.

Do we have to continue being used and abused with our council reps approval?

The Southwest has the largest percentage of homeownership in the City that is being destroyed by this Mayor and our Councilman daily. We are not allowed to grow and prosper because the seemingly big picture is to make the Southwest the dumping ground of this administration and Council leadership needs for the inner City of Louisville. Thank Bob Henderson and Rick Blackwell who rubberstamp Abramson.

In short they need a place to dump on and they decided it was the Southwest.

We need a place that can grow economically with new retail, commercial, and industrial growth.

We want a leader that will work with us, not against us, to make that happen on the Council. Henderson still continues approving astronomical 32% rate hikes that our older poorer neighbors have to pay from their limited income and uses IPL to harrass them when they have a problem.

Without these type of rate increases perhaps their would be more money in the pockets of our neighbors and they would take great pride in buying a gallon of paint for their home. No one likes being dependent on anyone else. Maybe we should work to help them keep more of their limited income so they can afford to fix up their home. They worked their whole lives for it and deserve better.

Then we allow this mindset by this Mayor of pumping more sewage into our area with no renouncement from Henderson, or Rick Blackwell, against this possible plan of sending waste our way limiting our growth and potential even further than he already has.

The only sewage that needs pumping is on the Metro Council. Pump Abramson out of office in the next election, and please keep Jim King out of the Mayor's seat. The rubberstamps will follow their leader automatically out of office. The dogs always follow the one pulling the leash.