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Narragansett Bay Commission in Rhode Island Selects MIKE URBAN for the Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Plan

The Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC), located in Rhode Island, has selected DHI Water & Environment’s MIKE URBAN package to evaluate design alternatives for their Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Abatement plan. The NBC was created in 1980 and is currently the owner and operator of Rhode Island’s two largest wastewater treatment facilities with engineering projects including the maintenance ...

Jan. 5, 2007

Kansas City, Mo., to spend US$2.5 billion to cut sewer overflows

The City of Kansas City, Mo., has agreed to make extensive improvements to its sewer systems, at a cost estimated to exceed US$2.5 billion over 25 years, to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban stormwater, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. A consent decree lodged today in U.S. District Court ...

May 18, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Settlement with city of Gloucester ensures improvments to treatment plant and addresses sewer overflows

Under the terms of a modified Consent Decree lodged in federal court today, the City of Gloucester will upgrade its sewage treatment plant and work to stem overflows from its sewer system. The modified Consent Decree stems from a federal enforcement action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Office of the Attorney General of ...

Aug. 23, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Approves Plan to Control Sewer Overflows in Cincinnati Area

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the approval of an innovative plan for the control of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in the city of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. “This plan is good news for the residents of Cincinnati and for communities along the Ohio River,” said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and ...

Jun. 3, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Portsmouth to build higher level of treatment and control sewer overflows

Under a recent settlement, the City of Portsmouth, N.H. will build better wastewater treatment and control sewer overflows. The agreement is filed as a consent decree in federal court because the City does not currently have the treatment facilities necessary to meet stringent limits in its waste water discharge permit. Also, much of the City’s sewer system is made up of a single set of pipes ...

Aug. 18, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Strategy to Reduce District’s Sewer Overflows Will Include Green Infrastructure

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the District of Columbia (District) and DC Water today announced an agreement to modify a 2005 federal consent decree (CD) allowing DC Water to incorporate green infrastructure in its long-term strategy for curtailing combined sewer overflows (CSOs). The modification, filed yesterday in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., gives DC Water the ...

May 20, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

City of Portland, Maine will Pay Penalty and Take Steps to Address Sewer Overflows

The City of Portland has agreed to pay a penalty of $53,250 to settle EPA claims that the City did not adequately prevent raw sewage overflows to surface waters from its sewer system. As part of the settlement, the City has agreed to address erosion along the banks of Dole Brook. EPA also previously issued a related order requiring Portland to better manage its sewer system to prevent additional ...

Mar. 20, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA’s Report to Congress on Sewer Overflows Shows Utilities Making Progress

Untitled Document EPA released this week its much-anticipated Report to Congress: Impacts and Control of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) and Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs). The Association of Metropolitan ...

Jan. 1, 2004

By NACWA - National Association of Clean Water Agencies

AMSA Delivers ‘Action Plan’ for Sewer Overflow Control to EPA

Untitled Document The Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) forwarded a letter and accompanying Action Plan, attached, to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ...

Jan. 19, 2005

By NACWA - National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Congressional briefing on combined sewage overflows: challenges and innovations - May 16

In its 2004 Report to Congress on CSOs and SSOs, EPA estimated that the costs associated with controlling these overflows in the next 20 years totaled nearly $140 billion ($50.6 billion and $88 billion respectively). These costs have likely risen dramatically over the past decade, and in addition the severity and length of the economic downturn could not have been foreseen. No one doubts that ...

May 15, 2012

By NACWA - National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District in Missouri to pay $4.7 billion to cut sewer overflows

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) has agreed to make extensive improvements to its sewer systems and treatment plants, at an estimated cost of $4.7 billion over 23 years, to eliminate illegal overflows of untreated raw sewage, including basement backups, and to reduce pollution levels in urban rivers and streams, the Department of Justice and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency ...

Aug. 4, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Black & Veatch selected to design $244 million deep rock tunnel to combat sewer and stormwater overflows

tunnel can provide cleaner and healthier waterways in Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio – Planning is now underway for a $244 million, 1.2-mile tunnel system, pump station and enhanced high-rate treatment facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, that could reduce the mixture of sewage and stormwater that enters local waterways, improving the quality of life for the more than 2 million people living in the ...

Nov. 11, 2010

By Black & Veatch Corporation

Innovative low profile sewer overflow screen from John Meunier Inc. installed in Newark (NJ)

John Meunier Inc., subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, is pleased to announce that it sold a second OSLP screen for the City of Newark (NJ), USA. CSO tradition within John Meunier Inc. John Meunier Inc. started selling CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) screens in 1981 with the introduction of the ROTARC SOS screens. This technology was shortly followed by the introduction of the ...

Feb. 2, 2009

By Veolia Water Technologies Canada (Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies)

Miami-Dade Agrees to $1.6 Billion Upgrade of its Sewer System to Eliminate Sewage Overflows

Under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today, Miami-Dade County in Florida has agreed to invest in major upgrades to its wastewater treatment plants and wastewater collection and transmission systems in order to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows. The state of Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection ...

Jun. 6, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Seattle and King County, Wash. Agree to Upgrade Combined Stormwater Systems to Protect Local Waters from Raw Sewage Overflows

King County and the city of Seattle have agreed to invest in major upgrades to local sewage and combined stormwater collection, piping and treatment under settlements with the Department of Justice and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The state of Washington was a co-plaintiff and partner in these settlements. The agreements are the result of extensive federal and state government ...

Apr. 16, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Ohio`s US$2.5bn plan to reduce overflows

The Ohio EPA is seeking public comments on its draft approval of the city of Columbus' wet weather management plan. The sewer system in Ohio's capital city currently discharges some 1.65 billion gallons of sewer overflow in a typical year. Under the new plan, by the year 2025, these overflows will be reduced to a total of about 250 million gallons. 'When the plan is implemented, there will be a ...

Jul. 22, 2008

By Environment News Service (ENS)

U.S. Clean Water Act Settlement in Lima, Ohio, to Reduce Sewage Overflows

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the State of Ohio today announced a Clean Water Act settlement with the City of Lima, Ohio, to resolve claims that untreated sewer discharges were released into the Ottawa River during wet weather. The proposed consent decree, lodged yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, requires Lima to ...

Nov. 20, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. clean water act settlement in Chicago to reduce sewage overflows

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the State of Illinois announced a Clean Water Act (CWA) settlement with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) to resolve claims that untreated sewer discharges were released into Chicago area waterways during flood and wet weather events. The settlement will safeguard water quality ...

Dec. 14, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

World’s Largest Combined Sewer Reservoir Captures APWA Top Environment Project Award

The Thornton Composite Reservoir, part of a massive Chicago-area combined sewer tunnel collection system that helps protect against flooding and pollution resulting from storm-related sewer overflows, has been named an American Public Works Association (APWA) Public Works Project of the Year. Thornton’s reservoir capacity is up to 7.9 billion gallons of water, making it the largest combined ...

Sep. 20, 2016

By Black & Veatch Corporation

Des Moines Wastewater Reclamation Authority selects HDR for US$40m combined sewer project

The Des Moines Wastewater Reclamation Authority has selected the HDR architectural, engineering and consulting firm to address significant combined sewer overflow issues. HDR will evaluate and select the most appropriate treatment technologies; design and provide construction phase engineering as well as observation services for a combined sewer solids separation facility. The ...

Mar. 31, 2008

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