Also in this week's sewer and water news, DC Water announces the success of its first green infrastructure projects using the Environmental Impact Bond

Also in this week's sewer and water news, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy announced that it has been awarded a $1.9 million grant for lead testing at schools across the state

The tunnel also caught 900 tons of trash, solids and debris that would have ended up in the river

Two completed segments of the tunnel have diverted more than 2 billion gallons of stormwater to a treatment plant and have prevented more than 100 tons of trash from entering area rivers

Also in this week's sewer and water news, Minnesota faces a water/wastewater infrastructure funding crisis; and Montreal, Quebec, commits to significant water system upgrades over the next few years

DC Water is proving honeybees can thrive in urban treatment plant settings

In this week’s news briefs, the Water Environment Federation is working with other utilities groups toward a 2018 debut on a green infrastructure certification program, and a Rhode Island town teams with its utility to take on private-side lead pipe replacements

In this week’s news briefs, D.C. Water awards the contract for a 5-mile, $580 million tunnel project that will reduce overflows into the Anacostia River, and a Michigan city is adding defendants to its lawsuit over who should pay for the repairs of a collapsed sewer and large sinkhole that appeared this past Christmas Eve