MIAMI (AP) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday after a significant leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted waters. Officials in Florida ordered more than 300 homes to be evacuated and closed off a highway Saturday near the large… >> Read More
A federal judge on Wednesday signed off on a deal between Houston and federal regulators that will require the city to spend an estimated $2 billion over the next 15 years to upgrade its troubled sanitary sewer system. Judge Charles Eskridge of the Southern District of Texas approved the consent decree – an agreement negotiated… >> Read More
FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada town founded a century ago by pioneers lured to the West by the promise of free land and cheap water in the desert is trying to block the U.S. government from renovating a 115-year-old earthen irrigation canal with a plan that would eliminate leaking water that local residents long… >> Read More
REDINGTON SHORES – The Town Commission got a status report and evaluation of work being done to fix an aging sewer system. After four years of costly repairs, the town is still paying twice what it should for wastewater treatment, Mayor MaryBeth Henderson said at the Feb. 24 commission workshop. Project manager Butch Lanaville and… >> Read More
After more than two weeks without clean running water, Katasha Johnson saw a slow trickle dribbling down a faucet in her home on the west side of Jackson, Mississippi, on Tuesday. But the brown drip didn’t feel like a reprieve for Johnson, 38, who lost water after back-to-back winter storms slammed the city and its… >> Read More