Lexington’s city council is expected to vote March 21 on a deal to give the city four more years to finish court-ordered improvements to its sanitary sewer system. In 2011, the U.S. Justice Department, working with the EPA and the state, mandated the improvements and set an end date of 2026. Division of Water Quality Director Charlie Martin has been with the city since 1999.
“It's fairly well known that when I came here that they had reoccurring sanitary sewer overflows that would – manholes that would pop every time it rained. We've come a long way since that time, and we don't have a lot of the overflowing manholes that we had in the past.”
