A long-delayed project critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup reached an early milestone this week, as the city finished excavating space for a massive underground sewer ...

At 30 ft below the roadway, the 60-year-old combined sanitary and storm sewer was prone ... heightening the risk of overflow. While rehabilitation was desperately needed, New York City’s Dept.

The completion of the Gowanus Canal cleanup will transform the neighborhood into a revitalized waterfront with open space and ...

Until it’s linked to New York’s main sewer system, the community must rely on septic tanks that are hard to maintain and easily overflow. Plans to make improvements over the past two decades ...

About two months later, 8.65 inches of rain fell on New York ... tank specializing in economic and policy research, this means that cities bear most of the financial burden of addressing outdated ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Bright green liquid was seen leaking onto the streets of New York City on Thursday. The liquid was oozing out of sewer grates ... was simply overflow from a routine procedure.

Miami’s COVID-induced boom — much of it fueled by an exodus from New York — may screech to ... heavy rainfall often causes septic tanks to overflow, which results in the release of fecal ...

Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times One by one, people trickled down to the rocky shores of the East River and the banks of the underground creek turned sewer overflow. The concert was timed to ...

Older coastal cities, like Philadelphia, New York and Boston are at risk of being inundated ... the researchers compared the model’s prediction of annual combined sewer overflow discharge volume to ...