Construction crews will start work this month on a nearly $30 million sewer project in St. Clair Shores that aims to reduce the number of discharges of treated wastewater and stormwater into Lake St.

Cincinnati has a combined sewer system, where human sewage shares the same pipes as stormwater runoff. High-intensity rainstorms can overwhelm the system, causing a combination of human waste and ...

However, in 2015, the city raised concerns about building more tunnels to deal with combined sewer overflows. "Building 28 miles of tunnels to eliminate SSO's (storm system overflows) was of ...