With possible changes coming to clean water laws and regulations at state and federal levels, the City of Lexington’s 6th annual Water Week is showcasing the important of creeks in the central Kentucky community. Jennifer Myatt is an environmental initiative specialist with the city.
“Water Week is just an effort to get people to notice the creeks that are in their backyards or that flow near their workplaces or near their school or their children's schools, and just to let people know that what ends up on the ground does end up in our water.”
Myatt said Water Week is full of programs designed to inform and entertain, including some that will remind folks of the role trees play in protecting water quality.
“They soak up a lot of the rainwater that comes down and so that isn't flowing into our creeks and taking all of the pollutants along the ground with it. And trees also act as a really good filtration system for our waterways.”
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