Brief history of 20th Century sewerage improvements

City of Syracuse and Onondaga County

1925 City constructs primary sewage treatment plant

1954 County takes over City sewage treatment plant

1959 County upgrades and expands sewage treatment plant

1970 County completes construction of Kirkpatrick Street Pump Station

1971 County repairs main interceptor sewer (MIS) and Harbor Brook interceptor sewer (HBIS), and trunk sewers on Oneida Street, Marcellus Street, Evans Street

1971 City Common Council clarifies ownership and maintenance responsibility for the Main Interceptor Sewer

1972 County repairs MIS and HBIS, and trunk sewers on Midland Avenue, Maltbie Street, Newell Street

1973 County repairs MIS and HBIS, and trunk sewers on Hiawatha Boulevard, South Avenue, Gifford Street, Midland Avenue, South Avenue & Onondaga Street, Harriman Street,

1974 County repairs MIS and HBIS, and trunk sewers on Tallman Street, Onondaga Avenue, State Fair Boulevard, Hoefler Street,

1975 County repairs MIS and HBIS, and trunk sewers on Elmhurst Street, West Fayette Street, Tallman Street, Ballantyne Road, Richmond Avenue

1976 County repairs MIS and HBIS, and trunk sewers on West Jefferson Street, Colvin Street, Rescue Mission

1977 County HBIS repairs

1978 County MIS/trunk sewer repairs Elmhurst

1979 County MIS/trunk sewer repairs Harrison Street, Tallman Street

1979 County upgrades and expands sewage treatment plant

1979 County produces first comprehensive combined sewer overflow facilities plan

1979 City transfers certain combined trunk sewers

1982 City transfers certain combined trunk sewers

1985 County completes $10 million ($18 million in 2006 dollars) best management practices physical improvements to trunk sewers and CSO regulating structures, eliminating forty CSOs and reducing volume of CSO by 90% (started 1980)

1987 Atlantic States Legal Foundation sues County over alleged Clean Water Act violations

1991 County completes CSO comprehensive facilities plan

1993 County upgrades sewage treatment plant

1996 County completes draft Municipal Compliance Plan and draft environmental impact statement

1997 County upgrades sewage treatment plant

1998 Start of ACJ

Source: Onondaga County website, accessed Nov 28, 2007.