State
From coolers to tires, flooding leaves behind piles of trash along local waterways
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Recent floods in the metro have left behind more than erosion problems.
‘What’s that smell?’ some Jackson residents ask
WAPT
JACKSON, Miss. — For weeks, if not months, residents in north Jackson, in the area of Hanging Moss Road, have been complaining about a bad smell.
City addresses drainage problem, hears updates on new businesses
Daily Leader
Brookhaven aldermen gave the green light recently for engineers to remedy a decade-old sewer problem in the Meadowbrook neighborhood.
Oil Spill
MDEQ to hold meeting about Turkey Creek Restoration Project
WLOX
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) is holding a meeting on Tuesday to further discuss the Turkey Creek Restoration projects.
Regional
Environmentalists plan suit over harm to endangered species from Bonnet Carre Spillway
NOLA.com
Two environmental groups are threatening to file suit against the Army Corps of Engineers, the Mississippi River Commission and the Interior Department for failing to evaluate the impact of repeatedly opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway.
EPA removing dangerous levels of lead from soil around homes near Mercedes-Benz Stadium
11 Alive
ATLANTA — Tangela Nash's yard is being wiped away.
Supporters, detractors weigh in on fish farm EPA permit at meeting in Sarasota
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Fort Smith Planning To Negotiate Terms Of Consent Decree
KFSM
FORT SMITH, Ark. (KFSM) — The Fort Smith Board of Directors heard from an attorney about a status update on the consent decree requiring upgrades to the city sewer infrastructure.
National
Ohio’s toxic algae plan could give other states a blueprint
AP
Nearly halfway into a 10-year pledge to combat the toxic algae that turns Lake Erie a ghastly shade of green, Ohio has made little progress. Its patchwork of mostly voluntary efforts hasn't slowed the farm fertilizers that feed algae blooms, leading to contaminated drinking water and dead fish.
These Photos Capture the World’s Sewer Systems When They Were Brand New
Smithsonian
Below our city streets lies an ad-hoc world of subterranean tunnels and pipes. The oldest are brick and concrete sewers that once carried waste streams in one direction, rainfall overflow in another. Today, these waterways must contend with newer sewers, subway tunnels, power lines, and fiber-optic cables. But in the 19th century, these labyrinths were the only man-made things that existed below ground.
Archival photos reproduced in Stephen Halliday’s An Underground Guide to Sewers give us a rare view of these sewers of the past, as they looked to the people who engineered, built, and maintained them.
