What is the “Consent Judgment” I’ve heard about?
A. The Consent Judgment is a mutually agreed upon plan between the City and the Commonweath of Kentucky. This agreement commits the City to adhere to requirements of the Clean Water Act over a specified time frame. It requires strict compliance with state and federal statutes, regulations and guidelines. To ensure compliance, government agencies have required consent judgments which are court judgments containing agreements between a sewer system operator and state or federal environmental agencies – under the guidance and sanction of the judicial system – that require that certain steps be taken by the system operator to reduce or eliminate sewer overflows in their area of operation. Because each community is different, each consent judgment also is different, in that it takes into account the specific conditions in each community. In Frankfort, the consent judgment was signed in 2007 and it places certain requirements on the City in terms of planning, funding, construction and report
