Portland’s Big Pipe hit 100% capacity at about 6:26 a.m. Thursday. That does not mean the system failed. It means the city’s giant underground overflow tunnels filled up during heavy rain, leaving no ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has a plan to permanently prevent raw sewage from discharging onto Cleveland’s popular Edgewater Beach. The proposal involves a new ...

Whether you refuse to accept them, or understand they are a part of city life on the Great Lakes, sewer overflows are a hot button topic. But what — or who — decides whether and when they happen? It's ...

A combination of stormwater and untreated sewage overflows from the MSD system into the Mill Creek in April 2024. The amount of raw sewage discharged into public waters in Greater Cincinnati was ...

The sewer district will test the water off Edgewater Beach in 10 spots twice a day until each of the locations shows acceptable E. coli bacteria levels. Only then will the sewer district change the ...

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) announced on Friday, April 24, that the combined sewer overflow from ...

FITCHBURG — In addition to completing significant work to deal with sewage overflow issues to date, the city recently announced the approval of $4.1 million in loan forgiveness for the ongoing ...

Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) could be contributing far more pollution to England's rivers than previously recognized, according to new research involving scientists from Imperial College London and ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland’s Big Pipe system reached 100% capacity Thursday morning, causing a mixture of sewage and stormwater to overflow into the Willamette River as an atmospheric river ...