Anyone who lives or owns a business in the area may serve on the nine-member board. Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting. If you know anyone in this area, please encourage them to attend this organizational meeting. Keep storm drains clear Drainage is a complicated problem in Owensboro, but citizens can take some simple steps to help. After heavy rainfall, many neighborhoods have serious flooding of streets and yards.
Citizens can help out by watching what they put in our streets.
City Engineer Marwan Rayan suggests keeping any leaves, grass clippings, or trash away from the street drains. If you see trash stuck along street drains, take a few minutes to remove it. It is very easy for the drains to become clogged and back up rainwater into streets and yards for hours until it can find other ways to ditches and streams. You might be surprised at how these simple steps may improve the drainage in your neighborhood. Many complaints have been filed from local citizens because of growing drainage problems.