This summer, the
Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati demolished 21 residential and commercial buildings in South Fairmount as part of the
Lick Run project. It’s designed to help redevelop and revitalize the neighborhood by introducing a park-like urban waterway between Queen City and Westwood avenues.
The Lick Run project will include a series of underground storm sewers, water quality features and natural, aboveground waterways constructed throughout the watershed to transport stormwater and natural drainage to Mill Creek. The central element of the project is an urban waterway that will run through South Fairmount between Queen City and Westwood, just east of White Street.
The individual projects will eliminate about 624 million gallons of combined sewer overflows into Mill Creek each year. Construction is slated to begin in 2015, with construction completion in 2019.
Lick Run is part of
Project Groundwork, a $3.2 billion project to rebuild and improve the region’s sewer system.
By Caitlin Koenig
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