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Monday, April 28, 2008

"City sees jump in overflow of sewers" The Columbus Dispatch

Link: City sees jump in overflow of sewers
Robert Vitale
The Columbus Dispatch
April 27, 2008

As Columbus begins a $2.5 billion, multidecade effort to boost its water-treatment capacity, it must deal with an overburdened system that sent raw sewage into local waterways and basements more often last year.

More than 670 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled from the city's sanitary sewers into the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, as well as into Alum Creek, according to a report from the Department of Public Utilities to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency...

Posted by Paul Bonneville on April 28, 2008 | Permalink

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