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

In this week’s news briefs, due to a rash of water main breaks, a city in Kansas discovers 13 miles of pipeline that had been improperly installed in the 1990s, and a large sewer project in Omaha, Nebraska, can resume after a 14-month hiatus now that a stuck tunnel-boring machine has finally been freed

In this week’s news briefs, the California state Senate passes legislation aimed at making it easier to finance stormwater capture projects, and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation debuts a mapping tool to better identify water quality problem areas

It’s the state’s largest-ever sewer project. Find out how a massive tunneling project is improving wastewater services on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

In this week’s news, workers in New York unearth more than a water main, Beverly Hills is fined for water overuse, and Akron tackles CSOs by embarking on its biggest construction project ever