BOSTON — As sewage overflows become more frequent in Massachusetts, advocates and lawmakers are pushing to reduce the number of combined sewer systems to avoid run-off sewage polluting bodies of water ...

Ella Rowen, Becca Costello and the Metropolitan Sewer District's Deb Leonard in the Lick Run stormwater drain in Cincinnati in March 2024. Cincinnati has a problem: every year billions of gallons of ...

Effective wastewater treatment requires regional cooperation along ecological boundaries rather than political ones.

Cars in floodwater on the FDR highway in Manhattan, New York. About two months later, 8.65 inches of rain fell on New York City—higher than any September day since Hurricane Donna in 1960. The city’s ...

A viral video from September 2021 captured a person swimming in high water along a main intersection in Richmond usually walked by college students. It rained just over 1.5 inches in a two-hour span ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Plans for the City of Richmond’s combined sewer overflow program is moving forward. After being approved by the Virginia Department of Environmental (DEQ) in August 2024, the ...

One pipe for the stuff you flush down the toilet, and another for stormwater runoff. That's how modern sewer systems do it. In this two-pipe system, the wastewater from our homes and businesses run ...

Biddeford voters got a chance to learn more about a $20 million sewer infrastructure bond to upgrade the town’s outdated sewer systems Thursday.