242 – Combined Sewer Overflow Alert
Photo courtesy of Morton Malaise.
Located at the near the ramp to the boat docks on the riverfront, just north of Cefcu Center Stage at the Landing.
The Clean River, Healthy Riverfront website describes the problem:
Combined sewer overflows are a century-old problem in more than 700 U.S. communities, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest. Illinois has more than 100 communities with combined sewers, which combine sewage and stormwater into the same pipe.
During dry weather, sewage flows safely through the City’s sewers to the Greater Peoria Sanitation District wastewater treatment plant. However, about 28 times a year melting snow or rainwater can overwhelm the sewers, causing untreated sewage to overflow into the Illinois River.
Peoria must examine its sewer overflows and prepare a long-term control plan that meets Clean Water Act requirements and protects the Illinois River. This plan must be submitted to U.S. EPA and Illinois EPA by December 2008.
Those interested can sign up for an email notification whenever an overflow alert is in effect.
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Along the riverfront?
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I’ll agree with Angie on this…but not sure where specifically this sign is. The ones I’ve seen are smaller.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Well…it has a nice level new looking sidewalk so that let’s out anywhere in the southend. The fence is nicely painted and appears to be iron, so it’s not the East Bluff. (it would have been removed and taken across the scales at IBS if it was) The sign has no graffiti so it’s not Campustown. All the words are spelled correctly so it can’t be on the East side of the river. The grass seems to be mowed so that let’s out the southside of West Peoria. Huh, this is a tuffy. I’m going to guess it’s in District 4 off of Rolling Acres.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I think it’s along the Peoria river front close to the Murray Baker bridge. Maybe between the bridge and the Spirit of Peoria.