It's a new $40 million bio-retention basin ... The city also has combined sewer overflow facilities, which are considered "gray infrastructure." They're large concrete tanks that treat a mix ...

The tank will reduce pollution into the Lackawanna River by 8 million gallons a year, or a 90% decrease, from what’s called combined sewer overflows of wastewater and stormwater that occur ...

But on rainy days, the pipes can reach capacity and spill the combined flow (including untreated sewage) into the Burrard Inlet or Fraser River. These overflows have a negative effect on the ...

New York has a combined sewer system ... One state rule requires public reporting whenever sewers overflow into bodies of water and threaten water quality. Poor water quality can make it dangerous ...

In 2024, the combined sewer overflows from the five major wastewater treatment plants along the Merrimack River totaled almost 900 million gallons. That volume was a major reduction from the ...

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A combination of stormwater and untreated sewage overflows from the MSD system into the Mill Creek in April 2024. The amount of raw sewage discharged into public waters in Greater Cincinnati was ...

Bio-retention cells or “soakaways” are landscaped areas like rain gardens that collect and filter storm water before releasing it slowly into the ground or drainage systems. Wetlands and rainwater ...

A blockage in a sewer line caused overflow to contaminate Clark Creek Thursday morning, the city of Salem said in a news release. A sanitary sewer overflow was reported in the creek at about 9:45 ...

King County’s penalty totals $46,000: $40,000 for issues at its wet weather treatment stations that treat combined sewer overflow water and $6,000 for two sanitary sewer overflows during wet ...

"So rain gardens, these sorts of retention ... to reduce sewer overflows is expected to take decades and cost billions of dollars. The city has committed to spending 10 per cent of combined ...