April 11, 2008
Friday Headlines: EPA Tells Marin County to Address Needs
Here’s an update on the situation in Marin County, California. The EPA said Thursday that the county’s sewage collection systems should work together to address chronic sewage spills and start long-term repairs to aging sewer pipes.
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The city of Wentzville, Missouri teams up with the local Wal-Mart to inform residents about storm water pollution and how to prevent it.
A sewage spill scare in Gulfport, Mississippi created quite a stink this morning. The sewage soaked an old FEMA park and for several hours, environmentalists worried that the contaminants would seep into the nearby Turkey Creek.
In Milwaukee, heavy rains Tuesday and Thursday resulted in combined sewer overflows to urban rivers and Lake Michigan beginning Thursday night, and prompted the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to begin blending partially treated wastewater with fully treated flows at the Jones Island treatment plant.
A broken sewer line causes a sinkhole that shuts down Easton, Pennsylvania’s Larry Holmes Drive
