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 ...

Three Bergen County municipalities have signed an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Protection to reduce pollution from combined sewer discharges into the Hackensack and Hudson ...

The forecasted rise of sea levels throughout New Jersey keeps putting residents in difficult positions. There’s another factor that merits much consideration, according to researchers at Drexel ...

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 ...

Stormwater is the 800-pound gorilla in the city’s menagerie of environmental issues related to water. It is also one that, compared with the better-known problem of combined sewer overflows, the city ...

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 ...