I have been out of town for several days and missed out on the leaf
discussion but...
Barb Lickness wrote:
> Can somebody out there talk about what areas of the
> city are connected to the sewer system and which ones
> are not. And maybe how when and why that happened?
>
and Greg Riedesel wrote:
>I know that St. Paul had interconnecitons between their run-off
>systems and their sewer systems, such that when it rained a heckovalot,
>raw sewage was ending up in the Mississippi. They've spent a heckovalot
>to remove the interconnections.
Mpls. spent the same gajillions to separate their sewer system and finished
several years ago. The storm sewer map for the City of Minneapolis is an
intricate and (only for those of us in water management) endlessly
fascinating thing. If you volunteer to spray paint your storm sewers with
the image "Don't Dump! Drains to ...) the city will give you a map of your
local area so you can spray paint the correct water body on the grate.
Various storm sewers drain to the Mississippi, Shingle, Minnehaha or Bassett
creeks, or the various lakes and ponds. It all depends on which watershed
you are in and it can change, depending on where the city needs to route
water due to flooding problems. The system is heavily dependent upon
gravity so if you follow your storm sewer down hill you will probably arrive
at its final destination.
Pam Blixt
Nokomis East
