U.S. District Court judge David Proctor on Thursday ended the consent decree that brought oversight of the sewer system for nearly 30 years.
A federal judge has lifted the longstanding order requiring Jefferson County to clean up environmental damage caused by its sewer system after significant improvements were made.
“Jefferson County’s sewer system is now light years ahead of where it was in the 1990s,” said Beth Stewart, former executive director of the Cahaba River Society, who worked with the county throughout the consent decree. “Everyone in the county is benefiting from cleaner water quality in our creeks, rivers and neighborhoods because of Jefferson County’s hard work and creative approaches.
“We are proud of our compliance record to meet and even exceed the requirements of the decree and to achieve this milestone of closing this matter,” said county Attorney T. A. “Theo” Lawson. “Our team has worked very hard to bring this to a conclusion.” The agreement releases the final four sewer basins serving communities in the Valley Creek, Shades Creek, Village Creek, Cahaba, and Five Mile Creek watersheds.
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