Three Bergen County municipalities have signed an agreement with the state DEP to reduce sewer discharges into the Hackensack ...

For decades, Pennsylvania’s state capital has been violating the Clean Water Act by routinely releasing hundreds of millions ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The city of Port Townsend will test its sewer system with smoke and dye this week along Lawrence Street. Inspections will be between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily. In a letter sent to ...

The Port Gardner Storage Facility, in the works for more than a decade, will help prevent overflows of the city sewer system.

The spot where Philip and Elaine Marco died had been linked to at least four similar incidents in the same year, a report ...

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 ...

When built, it will help prevent combined sewer overflows, which occur when intense rainfall strains the city’s sewer system, sending wastewater into the Snohomish River or Port Gardner Bay.

Atmospheric rivers almost guarantee that San Francisco, with its sewage system, will dump millions of gallons of raw sewage ...

London's combined sewage system handles human waste and rain runoff together, but the capital's population has outgrown the infrastructure. The new system is expected to stop 95% of the sewage ...