Widespread rain and isolated thunderstorms are expected to start around midnight and last through mid-morning Wednesday.

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, ...

The Red Hook tank is critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup and will prevent contamination of the ...

A bipartisan working group of local, state and federal leaders met March 14 to discuss progress on keeping bacteria-laden ...

Officials at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District urged people to put off chores like washing dishes or doing laundry until after the storms end.

In 2024, the combined sewer overflows from the five major wastewater treatment plants along the Merrimack River totaled ...

Still, billions of gallons of wastewater are released into the lakes each year through outdated sewage systems that use combined sewers.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 ...

Untreated sewage flows into the Merrimack from cities that use combined sewer systems, which overflow during heavy rainfall.

Pennsylvania American Water will close to traffic part of Green Ridge Street in Scranton near Green Ridge Plaza during the next two weeks for work on a sewer/stormwater overflow tank under ...