Combined Sewer Overhaul

Jersey City takes on a massive multi-year effort to improve its collection system, increase capacity, and eliminate CSOs.
Combined Sewer Overhaul
From left, Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority employees Philip Muzzo, instruction supervisor; Richard Haytas, district engineer; Daniel Becht, executive director; and Marc Borg, CCTV supervisor, with the city’s CCTV truck and three of the city’s five Camel vacuum trucks (Super Products).

Faced with an EPA consent decree and plagued for years by sewer backups, the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Au-thority is engaged in a comprehensive effort to inspect, clean and repair its aging 230-mile-long sewer system.

New camera inspection technology is helping.

“Our new...

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