Sewage

An estimated 500,000 gallons of untreated wastewater have been discharged into the St. Joseph River.

Michigan is the only U.S. state without a statewide septic code. Hundreds of thousands of leaking septic systems foul Michigan's waters.

From January 2018 through May 2019, 6.7 billion gallons of diluted or partially treated sewage, called combined sewer overflows (CSOs) spilled into…

Each year in Michigan, billions of gallons of raw or partially treated sewage end up in the state's rivers and eventually in the Great Lakes. That…

Officials say about 2.5 million gallons (9.5 million liters) of partially treated sewage recently flowed from a lagoon at a mobile home park in…

A health advisory has been issued after more than 8,000 gallons (30,283 liters) of raw sewage spilled into northern Michigan wetlands that are connected…

When you flush, do you know where the wastewater goes? How about where that sewer line ultimately ends?It is out of sight, and often out of mind. Yet…

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…