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 ...

HAVERHILL — Following a brief but heavy rainstorm Monday night, city wastewater officials issued a “Combined Sewer Overflow Notification,” meaning the city experienced a combined sewer overflow from ...

When it rains, the 100-year-old combined sewers in older parts of Fort Wayne can overflow, resulting in the discharge of a combination of stormwater (rain or snowmelt) and untreated sewage into CSO ...

A new study has found that residents living in the downstream communities that border the Merrimack River are at a substantially increased risk of developing acute gastrointestinal illnesses (AGI) in ...