Septic tank pumping in Plum Springs is a smaller part of the picture, because Warren County Water District is the city's sewer provider and its lines reach a large portion of the area. The bigger questions here are the house lines feeding a sewer first laid in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tell us whether your Plum Springs home is on sewer or septic, and we will follow up by phone.
A routine pumping for any Plum Springs home still on a tank costs $290 to $560 as a national average range per This Old House, on the EPA's 3 to 5 year cycle. For Plum Springs homes on the Warren County Water District sewer, the line from the house to the main is the owner's job. A sewer camera shows roots, cracks and sags in a Plum Springs lateral before anything is dug up.
Here is how each service fits a Plum Springs property:
Warren County Water District's 2018 engineering report says the Plum Springs gravity sewer went in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its concrete pipe was damaged by hydrogen sulfide gas, its clay pipe cracked and filled with roots, and one section collapsed in 2014.
The district relined that sewer, mostly along US 31W, so public sewer service would continue for a large portion of the Plum Springs area. The main is the utility's to keep, but the lateral from each Plum Springs house belongs to the owner, and an older lateral can show the same roots and cracks.
Instead of digging up the old mains, Warren County Water District chose cured-in-place pipe, a liner set inside the existing sewer, for the Plum Springs rehabilitation. The state's water resource database lists the project as constructed and fully funded, approved by the regional water management planning council in December 2016, with a Kentucky Infrastructure Authority loan, a USDA Rural Development loan and local money behind it.
The district's 2018 report says flows from about 600 acres of developed land pass through that sewer, so it carries far more than one street's wastewater. Its 2021 capital plan counted 8,181 active sewer customers across the district in December 2020 and more than 70 lift stations, and Plum Springs homes are one small part of that system.
The 2020 Census counted 497 residents and 199 housing units in Plum Springs, and 144 of the 196 occupied homes were lived in by their owners. For the 52 households that rent, a slow drain is worth reporting to the owner early, since the line from the house to the main is the owner's to fix. Across Warren County, the Kentucky Geological Survey estimated that 97 percent of residents were on public water in 2008.
The district's capital plan also says its interceptor projects aim to reduce the total number of individual septic systems in the area. For a Plum Springs home still on a tank, that makes a call to Warren Water about sewer availability the sensible first step before replacing anything. Warren County's Focus 2030 plan adds that the areas most likely to be built on septic are also the most vulnerable to groundwater contamination, because karst is so widespread. In karst country like Warren County, the Kentucky Geological Survey notes, stormwater can flow underground through large solution channels.
KY 957 (Plum Springs Road) runs through the city, with the Plum Springs Loop nearby. US 31W (Louisville Road) and KY 446 (Interstate Drive) pass close to Plum Springs, and I-65 is close as well.
Plum Springs is one of five cities in Warren County's Focus 2030 plan and shares a joint stormwater agency with the county.
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