Entries Tagged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

As researchers investigate questions, treatment plant workers can take simple, prudent steps to protect themselves.

Your jetter snake is filthy, and it’s stinking up your van. Don’t show up with a jetter caked with who-knows-what from your last customer’s drain.

A general permit that affects more than 200 small Massachusetts municipalities is now open for public comment.

New York and New Jersey will receive millions in financial aid from the EPA. The goal? Resiliency for wastewater treatment and drinking water systems.

Many water operators are struggling with microcystin. How should it be treated? How will the EPA manage it? And better yet — what can be done to prevent microcystin contamination in the first place?

The EPA announced this year's recipients of the Greening America's Capitals program.

It's been 15 years since the U.S. EPA did a comprehensive study on the impact of additives in septic tanks. A more recent study helps, but perhaps it's time for some fresh facts.

After a two-day drinking water ban in Toledo, Ohio, officials declare the water safe and state precautions are being taken to protect the city's residents.

Sewer system repairs in the East Bay Municipal Utility District and neighboring communities could total $1.5 billion.

The EPA announces the addition of secondary treatment at a superfund site to target 1,4-dioxane.