Meeting the federal requirement for making stormwater sewer improvements in Lexington doesn't lessen the need for additional projects. The City of Lexington met the consent decree order in 2021. Mark Sanders in the Division of Water Quality offered a stormwater drainage and flooding program update to Council members this week. Sanders said the priority list covers nuisance flooding as well as street flooding, which can include structural damage.
“And that’s the priority list…there’s a hundred or so locations around ..town that we’re kind of slowly working our way through just because of the cost to do those is so substantial..they don’t move as quick,” said Sanders.
