Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This week, Jeannie from Burlington, Vt., asked us about wastewater treatment plants. She said she's ...

Primary clarifier tanks sit at the Cedar Rapids Water Pollution Control Facility in Cedar Rapids on Nov. 4. The clarifier tanks allow large items in the water to settle at the bottom of the tank while ...

The plan for municipal sewage is to rebuild and expand Oak Orchard to process 15 million gallons a day. Micron’s sanitary ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - Dorchester County is continuing to work on upgrading and expanding its wastewater treatment plant in North Charleston. The plant is located on Landing Parkway just off ...

A research team in central Germany is testing a compact wastewater treatment plant designed to operate entirely on solar power. Built for disaster and emergency settings, the system relies on a ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Sioux City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant services 27,000 homes and 72 industrial customers across 5 municipalities in the Sioux City metro. Officials with the plant, along with the ...

Burlington has started a major upgrade to its wastewater treatment plant, a project approved by voters in 2025. The upgrades will address aging equipment and improve the health of Lake Champlain. The ...

Albany County is moving closer toward some very expensive upgrades to its two wastewater treatment plants, including the county's Water Purification District North Plant in Menands. ALBANY — Flushing ...

SPRINGDALE -- A $51 million project to upgrade Springdale's wastewater treatment plant is nearly complete. "We broke ground on that project on Sept. 2, 2022, and we just did a final walk-through on it ...

CHILLICOTHE — In recent years the wastewater treatment plant has been a hot topic in Chillicothe as the equipment failed and funding was needed to fix or replace it. After budgeting and grants were ...

Neither rain, nor snow, nor government shutdown are impeding the Shenandoah wastewater treatment plant's expansion and renovation project.

The village has been working to determine how much sludge, grit and effluent remains at the wastewater treatment plant, after it was taken out of service late last year. Wastewater treatment plants ...