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from it.These businesses run trucks 24/7, so right now, they’re on an old state road that’s two lanes wide and they have difficulty getting onto the bypass,which is also a state road.Additionally, the intersection with the bypass is one of our higher accident rate areas in the city.This plan is to wid- en it, put in turn lanes, a center lane, and try and improve the vehicular flow in that area while also improving safety at the intersection.” BVM: Does Georgetown have any green or sustainable projects planned or ongoing? Goodwin: “Whenever we do a project, we do try to add sustainable practices, but it typical- ly comes down to funding and some of those items get cut. But my goal with the North and South Water Streets project is to include some of those items, especially since we’re down by the spring. “This past year, we received a Source Water Protection grant from the State Division of Wa- ter; we have an area out by our ballpark– about 14 acres –which drains into a sinkhole and goes directly to the spring. So, we developed a large rain garden there to improve the quality of stormwater entering our drinking water.We had students from Georgetown Middle School come out and help plant about a thousand plants and we’re in the process of putting up signage to explain the path of water, the whole ecological cycle, how Royal Springs received water through our karst geology, and how we use water. “We’re also doing a stormwater watershed study; we’ve hired a stormwater consultant and we started a stormwater master plan.We had people from Toyota, Georgetown College, city GEORGETOWN, KENTUCKY Congratulations Georgetown for Being an Exemplary City Implementing Best Managment Practices Strand Associates, Inc. ® proudly serves as a strategic partner and trusted engineering resource to the City of Georgetown. Excellence in Engineering Since 1946 Full-Service Engineering www.strand.com l l l www.engrservices.com 340 S Broadway, l Lexington, KY 40508 ECSI - EXPERIENCE IN GROWING LOCAL COMMUNITIES CIVIL SURVEYING ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING Proud Partner in GEORGETOWN and Kentucky’s Growth 859-233-2103 PREFERRED VENDORS n Strand Associates Inc. www.strand.com n ECSI LLC www.engrservices.com officials from different departments, and other private entities discuss how we approach our five main watersheds.As part of our MS4 program, we have to try and clean things up and fix infra- structure and plan for the future. Do we need to add more regulations or sustainable practices so that we prevent downtown flooding; or prevent getting pollutants from an industrial area into a non-industrial area? That study is an ongoing process -probably for five years. “But,we did start a pilot project, this past year. We could only fund two of the sub-basins out of about 30 within those five watersheds, and what we’re doing is locating all of our structures, and inspecting them.We hired Leak Elimina- tors out of Lexington and they go around and close-circuit TV all the pipes, and they also clean all the pipes.And we’re going to take all those video inspections and come up with a project list and pull it all together for the whole watershed, and try and understand where to focus our money and what the problems are in the area.And then, coming out of that,we can start implementing green practices to try and solve some of those issues.We expect that whole project to last five to seven years at about $2.3 million.”