What is wrong with the City of Louisburg’s current sewer system and why are changes needed?
The Environmental Protection Agency has tightened the regulations on nutrients that sewer lagoon systems can discharge. The City has two lagoon systems – the North lagoons, located west of Broadway and N. Third Street, and the South lagoons, located west of Rogers Road between 287th & 295th streets, to the southwest of the City’s public works location.
The City received a letter from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state agency that monitors sewers, in March 2015 to notify the City that the EPA has tightened the ammonia limits on lagoon facilities that discharge to stream waters and the City’s lagoon system is not within the acceptable range as determined by the EPA. The City had to evaluate the current system and submit a plan of action to KDHE by Nov. 30, 2015.

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1. It’s now Spring 2017. What’s the latest on the sewer project?
2. What is wrong with the City of Louisburg’s current sewer system and why are changes needed?
3. Why is the City of Louisburg being targeted to make changes?
4. What was the City’s next step?
5. What did the Larkin Lamp Rynearson report say?
6. I thought the City upgraded the lagoons several years ago and those changes were to be sufficient for 20 or more years. What happened?
7. What’s the historical timeline of the current lagoons?
8. The City has decided Option 3 best fits the City’s needs. Why?
9. Now the big question. What does this do to sewer rates?
10. Where can I find the report to learn more?