Mary Esther Unveils Sewage Plant Addition
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By Patrick Mcdermott, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 9--MARY ESTHER -- Officials here are happy about a clean record at their wastewater treatment plant, and hope a new expansion puts the city in good shape for the future.
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Back Bay, one day, may be a little fresher body of water, thanks to the efforts of Susan Wenzel and many volunteers,  On a recent Saturday, 800 or so flowers, shrubs and trees were planted in a 1,200-foot-long buffer along a lake in South Shore Estates in the Red Mill area.
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By DEBRA LEMOINE  HAMMOND - Hammond's $7.5 million sewer treatment system, which discharges into wetlands seven miles south of the city, is now up and running, city officials said.
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By Heather Rutz, The Lima News, Ohio  Feb. 16--LIMA -- The city's utilities department has completed the first phase of a computer system upgrade that is improving service for customers, field operations and plant management.
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By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 25--Union County's biggest sewer plant, already strained by record growth, has been fined for environmental problems far more times in recent years than any other similar size plant in the Charlotte region, according to state records.
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There are brick sidewalks, a parking lot, a waste-water treatment facility, and two new buildings.
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By Andy Mead, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 3--The path that brings Kentucky American before the state Public Service Commission to argue for a new treatment plant has nearly as many twists and turns as the Kentucky River itself.
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By Randy Kraft, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 30--Controversy already has splashed an Emmaus inspection program aimed at stopping storm water from getting into sanitary sewer lines.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 16--Sewage treatment plants in Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls and Hayden are facing some of the strictest water quality standards in the nation under new requirements proposed Thursday by the federal government.
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By Erika Pesantes, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 15--DELRAY BEACH -- Residents' sewer rates are set to increase to pay for a $17 million deep injection well project that will pump highly treated wastewater thousands of feet beneath the ground's surface.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - Five-year-old Zimbabwean  Felicita Munyoro fiddles with a soda can as she plays with  friends, then bends to fill it with the murky contents of a  burst sewage pipe flowing past her house, oblivious to the foul  smell and the health dangers that lurk.
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Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination.
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By Jackie Burke, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Dec. 9--Aberdeen officials are working with area landowners to help improve water quality in Elm Lake and its watershed.
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By Jared Page Deseret Morning News  Fees for new sewer connections in the southern third of Salt Lake County will increase by about $1,000 per home beginning June 1 to help pay for a planned sewage-treatment plant in Riverton, sewer district officials said.
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By LAWRENCE LATANE III  An influx of cash was the sort of green revolution Debbie White needed when the Augusta County Service Authority sought to modernize its sewage-treatment system.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CANBERRA, Australia - An Australian state plans to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water as a record drought threatens water supplies around the nation, a state leader said today.
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Many plants can naturally clean chemically contaminated soil and groundwater. Researchers are now helping them do a quicker, better job of rehabbing polluted sites.