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The $103 million urban waterway is designed to reduce combined sewage overflows into Mill Creek, as part of a federal consent decree to bring the Metropolitan Sewer District into compliance with the Clean Water Act. Before this project, there was not one drop of rain that would fall on the Lick Run watershed and make its way to the Mill Creek without first going through our combined sewer and mixing with sewage, said MSD Deputy Director MaryLynn Lodor. That doesn t happen now.
Lick Run was buried about a hundred years ago and put into a 19.5-foot-diameter pipe to flow directly into the Mill Creek. Now, the stream flows openly again in a bed of rock from homes in the neighborhood and the original stream.
Lick Run Greenway set for grand opening
A few years ago it was a strip of land with old homes and businesses that divided Queen City and Westwood Avenues. Now there s a synergy that brings the whole area together with the new Lick Run Greenway.
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CINCINNATI â It might look like a new river runs through South Fairmount, but it s more like a bio-engineered stream. It s already improving the quality of water and quality of life along Queen City and Westwood Avenues.
The Lick Run Greenway is nearly complete and the area is already seeing the difference with a much cleaner Mill Creek.