Jul. 1—Last year’s extreme rainstorms flushed over 745 million gallons of raw storm and sewer water into Maine rivers and bays — more than twice as much as what overflowed the systems in 2022 and more than any other year since 2015. According to a new Maine Department of Environmental Protection report, last year’s untreated […]
Jun. 4—Decatur Utilities is planning its most expensive project ever with close to $120 million being spent on two sewer system improvements as part of its effort to stop sewage overflows. One project involves renovation of the wastewater treatment plant on Alabama 20 and the other involves replacing with much larger pipe a collector sewer […]
A United Flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to San Francisco was diverted on Friday after a toilet overflowed into the cabin, the airline confirmed. The Boeing 777 turned back to Frankfurt about two hours into the flight over the North Sea. The airline attributed the delay in a statement to The Hill to a “maintenance issue […]