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How RAILL was Established

From 2003-2006, Third Rock Consultants, an environmental firm, studied the watershed of the Corbin City Reservoir to determine the sources of pollution causing impairment in the urban drinking water supply. With assistance from a Clean Water Act 319(h) grant, Third Rock was able to determine that the most significant source of silt, pathogens, and nutrients to the reservoir was the Little Laurel River; more specifically, runoff from the city of London. To solve these problems, Third Rock proposed the implementation of projects that would slow the runoff of rainfall in the urban areas and therefore reduce the concentration of pollutants reaching the tributaries of the Little Laurel River and ultimately the Corbin City Reservoir. In February of 2008, after the award of a second 319(h) grant, the Restoration Action Initiative in the Little Laurel (RAILL) was formed by Third Rock to implement these water quality improvement projects and facilitate the development of green infrastructure in and around London and Laurel County.