New York Articles

Maryland has upgraded 6,550 septic systems to the best available technology through the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund since 2010. Nearly 3,800 of...

Algae blooms at the mouth of Smith Brook, a Lake George tributary, concerned residents in the Village of Lake George, New York....

Some septic tank pumpers in Ohio are considering a class action lawsuit to overturn new state rules that went into effect on...

Suffolk County gave free septic systems to 19 families in December as part of a pilot program to reduce nitrogen from onsite...

Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y., will use $2 million in state funding as seed money to establish a program in...

Where there are unsewered homes, there are inevitably failing onsite systems. In an effort to tackle the outrageous number of failing systems...

An unusually heavy snowmelt and series of rainstorms in the Northwestern portion of Wisconsin are causing septic systems to back up. According...

Minnesota has become the first state to ban the sale of antibacterial soaps, body washes and other products containing triclosan. The ban...

The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association in New Jersey is building a wetlands-based wastewater treatment center at its new $7.5 million environmental center....

Do generous local grants to encourage septic system upgrades work? You bet they do, if one small program in New York is...

It's a gift to experience firsthand how wastewater treatment can help a body of water. Eric Murdock received that gift in his...

Two single-pass buried sand filters with direct discharge to a protected trout stream failed an 80-bed rehabilitation facility for homeless men in...

Maryland Governor Martin O’Mally announced in August that he would reintroduce a ban on septic systems in new, large developments. He first...

A $3.14 billion sewer debt may force new developments and residents with failed onsite systems in Jefferson County to hook to sewers....