Wednesday, March 29, 2000
Miami Twp. sewer update near
Residents warned away from streams
BY LEW MOORES
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MIAMI TOWNSHIP — Residents living on Jandaracres Drive will get an update on progress being made in having their homes hooked up to public sewers and told what the pollution levels are in streams that run behind their homes.
Representatives from the Hamilton County General Health District, the Metropoli tan Sewer District (MSD) and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) will attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. April 12 at the Miami Township hall in Cleves.
For years, residents have complained about the odor coming from discharges into streams behind their property.
About 35 residences on the street use a private septic system that was installed in the 1950s and '60s. A convalescent home in the area uses a waste-water treatment plant that also discharges affluents into the streams.
Both the OEPA and the county health department have been testing the discharges the past several years. The discharges in the past have showed high levels of fecal coliform bacteria.
Tim Ingram, county health commissioner, said he will continue to ask residents not to wade in the streams behind their homes.
“That's what I told the residents,” said Mr. Ingram. “Please keep your children, your pets and yourselves out of these streams, until we can get the situation remedied for good.”
MSD is proposing to install a public sewer, part of its capital improvement program.
“Our job is to do what we can to provide them with sewers,” said Ann Newsom, spokeswoman for MSD. “It would be an assessment proj ect, which means the homeowners would have to pay for the local sewer put in. We have two sections of sewer that we need to put in before they can get their sewer put in.”
Until the sewers are completed — which could take another year or two — both the OEPA and the health department will continue to sample the discharges from the septic systems and the water treatment plant serving the convalescent center.
Mr. Ingram said they sampled the discharges a month or so ago, and the results were “pretty good.”
They are also sampling this week, and will share the re sults with residents at the April 12 meeting.
“Even if the last results looked good overall, that's just one little snapshot,” Mr. Ingram said. “Overall, the data has indicated to us that it's not safe to wade. That's why we need to get the area corrected, most likely with public sewers.”
OEPA has jurisdiction over the center's water treatment plant and will increase its monitoring of discharges.
OEPA is asking the convalescent center to increase its sampling for fecal coliform bacteria from once a month to twice a week, and that inspections of the plant take place quarterly instead of yearly, as has been the case the past four years.
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