Entries Tagged Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)

SmartTrend is a comprehensive software tool enabling users to anticipate overflow events at remote monitoring sites. The software automatically scans each site...

Akron, Ohio, has been under a federal consent decree since 2009 to improve management of CSOs. One of its latest projects as...

During the height of the California drought, Ventura residents had a chronic complaint to the city as they had to increasingly cut...

D.C. Water recently awarded its largest contract ever — a 5-mile tunnel costing $580 million that will help avoid CSOs into the...

The final phase of a major Rhode Island CSO project has been delayed for at least another three years.The Narragansett Bay Commission...

While a Canadian utility continues to work to reduce its overflows, it’s at least taking a proactive approach in notifying the public...

The California Senate has passed a bill that would make it easier for utilities to build stormwater capture projects.“We’re losing hundreds of...

The EPA wanted a $1 billion solution for Evansville, Indiana’s CSO problem. In the end, utility leaders came to an agreement with...

A $729 million multi-project CSO control plan spanning two decades requires some public education. But what do you do when people aren’t...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has officially lifted the state’s Drought State of Emergency in all but four counties, mostly in the agricultural...

The city of Alexandria, Virginia, and an environmental group are at odds over the timetable for replacement of the city’s largest combined...

Milwaukee Water Works must begin a search for a new superintendent now that its longtime head, Carrie Lewis, has moved on to...

The February 2017 Municipal Sewer & Water cover story focuses on an 18-year, $500 million effort undertaken by the city of Toledo,...

The EPA has released a proposed rule that would affect 182 Great Lakes communities and how they provide public notification about CSO...