Problems Facing The Watershed
The main problem facing the watershed is untreated househole sewage. UGWA conducted a watershed-wide study to determine the number of people without wastewater treatment. The study found that 66% of the residents in the watershed (over 5,000 homes) had no form of househole wastewater treatment. That meant that 66% of the people are either "straight piping", which is when all of their household wastewater enters a pipe that dumps directly into the stream, or have failing septic systems. This has led to large amounts of untreated household sewage in most of the streams throughout the watershed. The only municipal wastewater treatment facility in the watershed is located in Mullens and provides service to 23% of homes. 9% of the homes have a permitted septic system, leaving 66% with untreated wastewater.
Read more about this topic: Upper Guyandotte Watershed Association
Famous quotes containing the words problems and/or facing:
“Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot—a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life—of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.”
—Zick Rubin (20th century)
“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)