There are over 500,000 of them in the metro area, although we aren’t really sure how to take care of them or even how they even work. But when they stop working, hold your nose and run for cover. Here ...

Join Rural Action, the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District and the Washington County Health Department for a Septic Social!

With millions of people across the country under stay-at-home orders, home wastewater systems are getting more use. For many Americans that means increased use of septic tanks. The number of homes ...

MICHIGAN (WNEM) - Nearly 1.5 million homes in Michigan have a septic system. They are underground, out of sight, and most likely out of mind. These systems are important and costly. If they’re not ...

This is the first of a two-part series on addressing Cape Cod's worsening water pollution. Read the second part here. Pat Uhlman lives across the street from Shubael Pond in Barnstable. The round pond ...

It's too bad that two environmental groups felt they had no choice but to go to court to force the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to consider how cumulative septic tank permits ...