Tag: Sewer overflows

Under a consent decree resulting from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lawsuit, the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District will be expected to eliminate combined and sanitary sewer overflows from its 150-year-old collection...

For wastewater operators, heavy rainfall makes for a busy day on the job. It starts when stormwater infiltrates defects in sanitary sewer pipelines or rushes into combined sewers. Excess inflow can overflow collection sewers and...