One of the major threats to bathing water quality is overflow pipes which discharge raw sewage into rivers and the sea from sewer networks when heavy rain overloads the system with water from street ...
Like many days this past summer, it poured on Aug. 8. The rain came hard and fast across eastern Massachusetts that morning, dumping several inches within a relatively short period of time. From the ...
Residents told KIRO 7 that their West Seattle apartment units were impacted by sewer overflow amid the sub-freezing temperatures due to frozen pipes. A spokesperson for the Seattle Fire Department ...
Water firms have been accused of “gross negligence” after 24% of sewage overflow pipes had a “faulty” monitoring device - or none at all. Research today says 1,802 of the 14,470 storm overflows in ...