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About 25 million gallons of partially treated wastewater ended up in Stamford Harbor, Conn., after heavy rains inundated the wastewater treatment facility....

Officials in Richmond, Va., took precautionary measures on Wednesday, April 30, to protect the city’s water supply after a train carrying crude...

City officials in Portland, Ore., who originally decided to drain 38 million gallons of water from Mt. Tabor Reservoir No. 5 after...

Seven Maine wastewater treatment facilities received a funding boost from the U.S. Department of Agriculture during an Earth Day celebration in Hartland,...

Although water usage in Wichita Falls, Texas, is down by about half compared to last year, conservation efforts are not enough to...

Like many municipalities in Wisconsin, the City of Vesper is concerned about costs associated with Environmental Protection Agency-mandated phosphorus limits, which will...

Along the Colorado River Delta, years of drought mixed with high water-supply demands have morphed the once-lush ecosystem into bone-dry cracked earth....

An innovative pilot program designed to educate the public about the proper disposal of baby wipes has been nominated for a 2014...

A methane explosion on March 24 at the Goshen (Ind.) Wastewater Treatment Plant was likely caused by methane buildup in the plant’s...

A decades-old fuel spill at the Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, N.M., is slowly creeping toward municipal water sources. Discovered in...

An unreported mercury spill triggered concern over employee health at the East Lansing, Mich., Wastewater Treatment Plant after an anonymous caller tipped...

A water main break in Janesville, Wis., blew a 20-foot-wide hole in a street and created a 30-foot-high water geyser. The 12-inch...

Rerouted wastewater could rejuvenate some of Louisiana’s wetlands. As part of the Wetland Assimilation Project at the South Terrebonne Wastewater Treatment Plant,...

After a punishing winter, full of snowstorms, ice storms and every mix of precipitation Mother Nature could conjure up, many freeways and...