"Kansas City Sewer History," presentation by John Dunn

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“A History of Water Pollution in Kansas City,"
by John Dunn, Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Cities interact with the Big Muddy (Missouri River) on a daily
basis through the infrastructure of pipes, pumps, and treatment
plants. This has been a constant dynamic in Kansas City from the
first drainage pipe in OK Creek to the recent decisions
concerning combined sewer overflows and stormwater
management. Kansas Cities uses of the river and our attitudes
have changed with time.
In this presentation John Dunn shares a short history of how our
Kansas City grew, and how our water infrastructure grew with it.
The Clean Water Act brought about big changes in the national
picture and Kansas City was no exception. He will talk about the
basics of our current water and waste water systems and the water
issues facing the KC Metro.
John Dunn, is an EPA Engineer with over 25 years of water
experience. The mission of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment.
Big Muddy Speakers Series (Kansas City) hosted by Healthy Rivers
Partnership (www.healthyriverspartnership.c..., Lakeside
Nature Center (www.lakesidenaturecenter.org/), and
RiverRelief (www.riverrelief.org/) at the Westport
Coffeehouse Theater (www.westportcoffeehouse.com)
Musical Credits:
"Everybody Poops,"
by Audionautix.
Creative Commons Attribution license
audionautix.com/
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[@Argyle302]

My dad, Robert Stude, was a civil engineer here in Kansas City, specializing in foundations, bridges, airport hangers, truck terminals, and also sewage treatment plants. He was a concrete guru, which a lot in the industry went to him for answers. I find your video very fascinating! My dad would have loved it.

[@nobleroofinggeneralcontrac7961]

Awesome ty for the vid!

[@ronjohnson8405]

Fascinating! Thanks!

[@MrTschaffer]

John, thank you for this. Great history lesson. Who would think water quality could be interesting. Great work.

[@ONEBALLINMYBUTT]

Interesting

[@doraran2138]

Very good historical to current presentation on vital, though little known aspect that's made our contemporary world safe from forgotten diseases that plagued humanity for many millennia. As side comment: Your success of your job means no one dies from water and waste borne disease.

[@ravioli2389]

Very educational !.....thanks Mr. Dunn......👍

[@armanflint]

John Snow from Game of Thrones just took on a whole new meaning.

[@asbestosfibers1325]

W.s. dickey Terra cotta roofing edge tiles are actively being removed from dozens of buildings in downtown k c for no reason and being replaced with awful epdm in comparison

[@colepaul8320]

I would love to see a version of this made for wichita kansas!

[@BigMeddy]

Love it

[@stevenforman3044]

beautiful video... Thanks a lot.

[@schlomo6613]

One of Paul Giamattis lesser known works.

[@rickfoster9459]

Yep the kaw River Has washed away alot of Problems

[@alvexok5523]

What the hell was up with that song at the start of the video!?

[@bobbg9041]

If the river has high amounts of farm run off cant the help provide farms with free fertilizer and nutrients so piping it up to ground soil helps filter out these fish killing pollution as the water drained back to the rivers in the soils natural. Deep wide holes lined with rocks hold the water untill its absorbed back into the soil as its filtered by the soil the water returns to the river clean, most of its from runoff from homes, so a separate water delivery system is put in place to use as landscape watering free or lower cost then clean city water. This is a natural way to clean the river Becuse if it reaches the gulf it can cause a red tide killing the corel natures filtering system. Coral reffs help clean water and air. And provide healthy ecosystems. The more we do to clean the water before it gets to the ocean the better now most the swamp land gone. Natures filtering system. The clean water and stop floods. Hey we screwed up our own controls.

[@asbestosfibers1325]

I hope this features info about thompson hayward dumping byproduct from agent orange production in it. Be real. That river is trashed.

[@jeffbybee5207]

The comments on urban planning at its best. Truth!!! When there was none it was best. to paraphrase president Jefferson " I vastly prefer the casos and noise of freedom to the peace and quiet of goverment tyrany

[@stevenherrold5955]

his descriptions of different smells . odors. dead flesh blood animal waste is funny the great stink must have been a misrubble time to be alive bad air bad science dirty water yuck !!! i'm glad i wasn't even thought of yet

[@jerrysullivan8424]

And you could add in cigarette smoke. :)

[@bobbg9041]

This truly is a really shitty subject. Just had to pass that on,