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Also in this week's sewer and water news, the head of the Alliance for the Great Lakes praises Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's plan to eliminate CSOs

Also in this week's sewer and water news, environmental officials in Maryland warn that the Back River is unsafe for human contact

Also in this week's sewer and water news, a documentary highlighting the deteriorating sewers in Mount Vernon, New York, inspires a $150 million infrastructure investment

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the White House recently released its Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Rural Playbook to help governments in rural areas unlock the benefits from recent federal infrastructure investments

Also in this week's sewer and water news, engineers in California measure the lowest April 1 snowpack the Sierra Nevada has seen in seven years, and the sixth lowest recorded in state history

Also in this week's sewer and water news, a parked semi truck with a punctured diesel tank leaks fuel into Madison, Wisconsin's sewer

Also in this week's sewer and water news, a wastewater technician on a construction site in Sheldon, Iowa, finds a woolly mammoth tooth scientists say is more than 20,000 years old

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the Water Quality Association offers lead pipe resources for New Jersey residents after more than 180,000 households find out they're served by lead lines

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the Austin (Texas) City Council asks its city manager to pay back Austin Water customers for February's boil-water incident

Also in this week's sewer and water news, a wastewater treatment facility in Vestal, New York, declares an emergency after a malfunction caused one its buildings to flood with partially treated wastewater

Also in this week's sewer and water news, President Joe Biden visits The Shipyards in Lorain, Ohio, to announce an investment of $1 billion into Great Lakes restoration as part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the director of Austin (Texas) Water has resigned and three employees have been placed on leave following a citywide boil-water notice resulting from employee error

Also in this week's sewer and water news, an error by operations staff at the Ullrich Water Treatment Plant in Austin, Texas, results in a citywide boil-water notice for residents

Also in this week's sewer and water news, a California city is one step closer to winning its 10-year lawsuit against the U.S. subsidiary of a Chilean fertilizer manufacturer for contaminating its drinking water