Best Project Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Design Lick Run Greenway Project
With nearly 800 million gallons of combined sewer overflows discharged annually from Lick Run, the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati sought a creative solution that would reduce CSO and greatly improve water quality of Lick Run, Mill Creek and the Ohio River. Although from outward appearances it looks like parkland, the headwaters of this mile-long, man-made stream and pond are engineered to help separate stormwater and wastewater. Crews led by Kokosing Industrial constructed both a new sewer for the wastewater flows and a new day-lit stream bed doubling as the stormwater conveyance.