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Keitha B Cole SPCH 101H Spring 2014

General Purpose: to persuade the audience to get on board with Green Infrastructure.

Specific Purpose Statement: Green Infrastructure is an important replacement for some costly gray infrastructure projects in the managing of sewer overflows, not just in cost, but also in ecological health.

Introduction:

1. I’ll define “combined sewer overflows” (CSOs), and how they are a problem.

2. I’ll tell you the difference between gray and green infrastructure, and the many ways to implement green infrastructure

3. I’ll tell you what this stuff can cost you.

Transition Statement: You’ll see that Green Infrastructure is a great way to reduce water pollution.

Body:

1. What is a Combined Sewer Overflow or “CSO”?

1. It is a sewer that combines our sewage with storm water, before it goes to the waste-water treatment plants.

2. In order to prevent wastewater from “backing up into your basement,” as Andrew Tobias from the Plain Dealer put it, there’s a sewer tunnel that lets the lighter debris from the wastewater travel with storm water out to natural bodies of water.¹

3. According to the Natural Resource Defense Council, CSOs in the U.S. are dumping up to 850 billion gallons of untreated wastewater into streams, rivers, lakes and oceans.²​​