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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

75 More Trash Removal Systems Headed To Help The Wicomico River

Mayor James Ireton Jr. is pleased to announce a demonstration tomorrow at 1pm at the corner of Church Street and Isabella Street. He will be introducing the installation of 74 additional innovative  stormwater management products for the Wicomico River. The  FloGuard Plus Catch Basin Inset Filters will be installed at various  locations throughout the City. They are designed to catch the trash and runoff headed for the Wicomico River.

In support of efforts to improve the health of the Wicomico River, these
insert filters will decrease the amount of contaminants in storm water runoff. In May 2012, 31 of the inserts were installed. Since then, some the filters have had to be replaced due to the amount of petroleum runoff they have captured. There will now be over 100 collections systems in place.

The Inlet inserts, are supplied and installed by KriStar/Americast
Enterprises, Inc. This insert project is made possible through a grant 
from Community Development Block Grant and the Federal HUD 
program. Attached are the geographic locations and physical 
descriptions of the trash collection systems.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are they going after the people dumping oil in the drains?

Anonymous said...

Just another waste of tax payers money. That homosexual mayor could care less about the health of the river.

Anonymous said...

They will require a person or personnel to monitor, clean, maintain and change the filters. Of course none of that is covered in the grant.

Anonymous said...

Doesn't stop the ignorant people that live in the area from throwing trash in the river.

Anonymous said...


everyone remember that when the new 6 foot pipe to the river went in we could have bought the type of catch basins that didn't need inserts and would be maintenance free.

But, Ireton said NNOOOOOOOOOOO!

Anonymous said...

Creating jobs, one sewer at a time.

Anonymous said...

11:31. we remember...
was that jimbo?