Tag: <span>combined sewer overflow</span>

Greening Communities: Water Management for Climate Resilience

An estimated 10 trillion gallons of untreated stormwater runoff, containing everything from raw sewage to trash to toxins, enters U.S. waterways from city sewer systems every year, polluting the environment and our drinking water supplies. The EPA describes stormwater runoff as one of the fastest growing sources of pollution in …

Be a Hero and Wait…

  The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is tasked with many, many responsibilities. It “manages and conserves the City’s water supply; distributes more than one billion gallons of clean drinking water each day to nine million New Yorkers and collects wastewater through a vast underground network of pipes, …