Waves of rainstorms are expected to move through Chicago Wednesday, prompting an “overflow action day” alert from the ...
New York’s Flushing and Jamaica Bays are two hotspots for sewer runoff. With multiple tributaries flowing into each body, ...
Widespread rain and isolated thunderstorms are expected to start around midnight and last through mid-morning Wednesday.
Gous noted the City of Vancouver (where he said the cost of sewer separation is “astronomical” to the point of being ...
Still, billions of gallons of wastewater are released into the lakes each year through outdated sewage systems that use combined sewers. These sewers transport raw sewage and stormwater in a single ...
Researchers at the Shedd Aquarium are putting tiny trackers inside fish living in the Chicago River to study them and the ...
About 1,000 gallons of wastewater leaked into Lake Michigan on Friday. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District said the ...
Combined sewage overflows occur in five cities along the ... The project will separate these combined sewer pipes, so that only rainwater runs into the river, and effluent flows to the plant ...
To avoid a combined sewer overflow, the sewerage district is asking ... wastewater from homes and businesses flow through the same pipes before they are treated. If heavy rains cause the water ...