Sewage

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is developing a new regulation to require public notices of combined sewer overflow discharges into the Great…

Waste water sludge is making its way to Michigan farms in the form of fertilizer pellets. The practice has not gone unnoticed in rural Lenawee County,…

It looked like an April Fools' Day joke.A pair of Porta-potties set up near a busy campus bus stop, student and faculty volunteers in T-shirts with "Pee…

Researchers have set up two Porta potties by a bus stop on the University of Michigan's central campus today. They're hoping to gather enough urine to…

LANSING – State officials say billions of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage were dumped in Detroit area rivers and streams after flooding from…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - East Lansing has arranged for wastewater treatment plant employees to be tested for mercury poisoning after a November spill…

You're about to read something you might not want to spend much time thinking about, but that doesn't mean it's not important. That subject is septic…

Running the country's largest wastewater treatment plant is not easy.You've got to treat more than 700 million gallons of 'who-knows-what' every day.In…

A coalition of union and environmental groups says it’s time for the federal government to invest more money in the nation’s aging water and sewer lines.…

by Julie Grant for The Environment ReportWhen Ernie Runions took the job as maintenance manager at the Senior Citizens Housing Center in Louisville, New…