The St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District is in the midst of a massive $7.2 billion, multifaceted infrastructure improvement program aimed at eradicating the sanitary sewer overflows that have plagued the city and surrounding St. Louis County for decades.
Called MSD Project Clear, the mammoth initiative also will improve water quality in the metro St. Louis area by eliminating the discharge of stormwater mixed with untreated wastewater into local waterways, says Bruce Litzsinger, MSD assistant director of engineering for planning.“This is the largest capital improvement project in our utility’s history and I also can safely say it’s one of the largest such
