The problems facing many of our older Northeastern cities are widely known — population loss, economic woes, deteriorating infrastructure.
Fall River, Mass., has had its share of hard knocks, too. Once the nation's leading textile manufacturer, the city has lost industry and population. Nonetheless, the Fall River Sewer Commission is nearing completion of a decades-long, $185 million combined sewer overflow abatement project that has already improved water quality and promises to help the city prosper in the future.
"As difficult as this has been for us," says Terry Sullivan, administrator of community utilities, "all
