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Heavy rains caused several wastewater discharges across Oahu, Hawaii, early this week, including a 500,000-gallon spill that resulted in the closure of...

“When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade … Well, when life gave some Detroiters a sinkhole, they made a fishing hole.”That’s...

Naegleria fowleri, also called “brain-eating amoeba,” has been found in a third Louisiana water system. The Terrebonne Parish utility district issued a...

The City of Savannah, Georgia, plans to spend about $500,000 for a new drainage line to replace the aging 19th century stormwater...

Former public works employee Johnny King is fighting for unemployment benefits from the Town of Chadbourn, North Carolina, after he says he...

Josephina Guzman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.An underground explosion shot a nearly 300-pound manhole cover through the floor of...

While investigating the Gold King Mine in Colorado on Aug. 5, the EPA and State Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety triggered...

As heavy springtime rains brought relief from the drought that gripped north Texas, the City of Wichita Falls has pulled back from...

City Council Votes to Reactivate Desalination Plant Santa Barbara City Council members voted unanimously July 21 in favor of spending $55 million to...

Dale Schepers, public works director for the Village of Tinley, Park, Illinois, has resigned amid a controversy over how the village’s electronic...

An act of kindness ended tragically earlier this month in Syracuse, New York, and the good Samaritan’s body was found two days...

The Fargo Water Utility (North Dakota) will now have to add zebra mussels to its list of concerns. After performing some precautionary...

In Washington state, researchers hope to glean a little information about pot use by studying wastewater in two separate cities. The pilot...

Public employees of the Halifax Regional Water Commission (Halifax Water) and the utility were back at the bargaining table earlier this week...