PORTLAND, Ore. — When a city the size of Portland gets soaked with rain like it has for the past week, there's a concern that often lurks under the surface of the flooding and slide risks: sewage. The ...

Like many days this past summer, it poured on Aug. 8. The rain came hard and fast across eastern Massachusetts that morning, dumping several inches within a relatively short period of time. From the ...

Residents told KIRO 7 that their West Seattle apartment units were impacted by sewer overflow amid the sub-freezing temperatures due to frozen pipes. A spokesperson for the Seattle Fire Department ...

Water firms have been accused of “gross negligence” after 24% of sewage overflow pipes had a “faulty” monitoring device - or none at all. Research today says 1,802 of the 14,470 storm overflows in ...