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  Program Mission Statement

This Program will develop an implementable Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan that complies with regulatory requirements without imposing excessive financial burden on system users after including allowances for the maintenance of existing wastewater facilities. The capital expenditures associated with this Program should be leveraged into improvements for all stakeholders throughout the Omaha area and consider benefits extending beyond water quality and sewer system improvements.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NET to Air CSO Programs:

Our Water, Our Future
 This television program discusses a brief history of the Omaha sewer system; why the city must renovate its sewer infrastructure, what methods are being considered, and how it will benefit the community. View video online

TV Schedule:
2/7/09, 7PM, NET2
2/8//09, 1PM, NET2
2/28//09, 7PM, NET2
3/1//09, 1PM, NET2

Liquid Assets
 This television program tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: drinking water, wastewater and stormwater from communities across the United States. Learn More about Liquid Assets
TV Schedule:
2/7/09, 8PM, NET2

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Welcome to the City of Omaha’s combined sewer overflow (CSO) program website. This site will help you understand what an overflow is and steps Omaha is taking to reduce raw sewage from overflowing into the Missouri River, Papillion Creek. An overflow, called a CSO, happens during wet weather (rains or snowmelts) when stormwater enters the sewer system along with sanitary sewage and the capacity is inadequate. Currently this occurs about 58 times a year in Omaha. We plan to reduce that number to four times a year.

Omaha is working hard to meet the unfunded Federal mandate to control CSOs. Solutions to control the overflows have been identified. Refinements to those solutions are in progress.

Browse around this site to learn more about the CSO!, Clean Solutions for Omaha program. We've tried to anticipate your questions on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. Numerous maps, photos and publications will tell you what general areas may be directly affected by the construction over the next 20 years and what guided the city to select the solutions proposed. And you'll find newspaper articles, TV and radio stories as well as individual basin newsletters in the Newsroom.

If you have specific questions, call our CSO Hotline at 402-341-0235 or email us.

 
 
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