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 ...

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 ...

A new systematic review published in Engineering offers a comprehensive look at the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and explores strategies for mitigating ...

During extreme rain or rapid snowmelt, the high volume of water that enters sewer systems can cause untreated sewage to flow into waterways in US cities that have combined wastewater and stormwater ...

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 ...

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 ...