A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure.

A Wood Manor apartment homes resident says raw sewage has been backing up into her home, leaving her family without a working toilet for roughly half of each month.

Drawing attention to a long-term, systemic problem that ends with raw sewage bubbling up in residents’ basements.

Syracuse, N.Y. – New York state has fined Onondaga County for letting diluted but untreated sewage to back up through manhole covers at two industries in Solvay. The state Department of Environmental ...

Because many wastewater plants are still without electricity, there may not be enough power for their sewer lines to push the sewage to the wastewater plants. This may cause sewage to back-up into ...