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Search results for "Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District" ...

  • MSD

    Corruption in the Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District. The MSD oversees sewer treatment, storm water management and Ohio river flood control for the several hundred thousand people who live in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky. Throughout the investigation, The Courier-Journal discovered that MSD board members owned companies that they were doing business with the agency they served, excessive bonuses to top officials, and a secret $140,000 lawsuit with an HR chief when he threatened a whisteblower lawsuit.

    Tags: Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District; MSD; Jefferson County; Kentucky

    By Jim Bruggers

    The Courier-Journal

    2011

  • No title (id: 2077)

    Courier-Journal (Louisville) runs series on the failure of the city's Metropolitan Sewer District to prevent industry from pouring waste water containing toxic metals at levels far greater than its regulations allow into sewers, August 1981.

    Tags: None

    By None

    Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.)

    1981