“Don’t think about this as a river,” he said, but “as an open sewer.” The river not only flows to the Pacific, but also San Diego Bay, and Bobby Wallace, of the Barona Band of Mission ...

Malibu became a city in 1991 largely to block sewers and the rampant growth they threatened to bring. The January wildfire ...

Boston Harbor has come a long way since it was labeled an "open sewer" in the 1980s. A court-mandated cleanup transformed the harbor and surrounding rivers into some of the most improved urban ...

The Hythe in March was a natural waterway through the town and was later used as an open sewer, thought to be a contributing factor to many deaths from a cholera outbreak in 1849. The structure ...