Waterways running throughout Fayette County are monitored for any pollutants. It’s part of the MS4 program, which stands for Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System. The program manager is Lindsie Nicholas, who updated a Lexington City Council committee earlier this month. Nicholas said state permitting is narrative-based on things like trainings, inspections, and enforcement. She said it’s not numerical-based.
“You know at a point source you can say this is the outfall, this is where it came from. This is our wastewater treatment plant or this is the industry where it’s coming from. But non-point sources, it’s coming from 322,000 people doing different things, so it’s a little harder to have numeric standards with a permit like this,” said Nicholas.
