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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

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the state of Maryland files a lawsuit against Baltimore for untreated wastewater discharges into the Chesapeake Bay

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the only water source for Billings, Montana, is running short as the Yellowstone River drops to a historic low

Also in this week's sewer and water news, Xylem Inc. has announced it is sponsoring a new funding mechanism for water utilities to deploy promising new technologies

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has initiated the first application period for Extraordinary Maintenance projects addressing water infrastructure in the West

Also in this week's sewer and water news, leaders meet in Las Vegas to discuss how to spend Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding amidst water loss in the region

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply shuts down its largest water source due to reports from the U.S. Navy about well contamination

Also in this week's sewer and water news, a hiker in Hawaii finds a stream that smells of beer and tests at 1.2% alcohol by volume

Also in this weeks' sewer and water news, the discovery of toxic chemicals at a construction site in Indiana results in the postponement of an expansion project at a city’s wastewater treatment facility