Managing Healthy Water It all goes away… The Waste Water Treatment System Sanitary Sewers

Managing Healthy Water

It all goes away…

The Waste Water Treatment System

Sanitary Sewers

The Waste Water Treatment System

Storm Sewers

Combined Sewer and Storm Water Systems

Non-Point-Source & Point-Source Pollution

The Clean Water Act

Separate Storm Water Systems

Sanitary Sewer Ins / Influent

Storm Water Sewer Ins / Influent

Sanitary and Storm Sewer Outs / Effluent

Phosphorous

Herbicides

Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drugs

Over-the-Counter Drugs

Naturally Occurring Challenges

The Waste Water Treatment Plant’s Role

The Community’s Role

Rain Barrels

Rain Barrels Benefits

Rain Gardens

Why Rain Gardens?

Beautiful & Native Rain Garden Plants

Prescription Drug Disposal

General Water Conservation

Acknowledgments

• Lindsey Grimm, Licking County Recycling

• Northeast Ohio Public Involvement Public Education Committee

• Rusty Schmidt, URS Corp. • US Department of Agriculture,

Natural Resource Conservation Service

• US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control

• US Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Health Information

Contact Us to Learn More

Licking County Soil and Water Conservation District (740) 670-5330 or information@lickingswcd.com

•Purchase a Rain Barrel

•Schedule a water conservation class including:

•Build a Rain Barrel Workshop

•Rain Garden Demonstration Workshop

•Stream Team Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Training

Keep Up the Good Work