Steubenville Council revisited an ordinance that was read last Tuesday as an emergency regarding funding for the planning and design of the CSO 12 Slack Street sewer repair project. After failing ...

Public health officials recommend waiting at least 48 hours after a CSO event to swim, boat or let pets into affected water. Following a slate of lawsuits in the 1980s, many municipalities have ...

"Building 28 miles of tunnels to eliminate SSO's (storm system overflows) was of questionable value, because SSO's are such a small volume of overflows compared to CSO'S (combined sewer overflows).

Water enters the CSO tanks after storm flow reaches the capacity ... from trash and other debris flushed off the streets into sewer inlets — and that otherwise would enter the tanks during ...

As the water enters the CSO tanks, screens with 2-inch openings catch debris that had accumulated in the combined sewer lines and from the streets — leaves, paper, cans and bottles, Musser said.