In this week’s news briefs, the EPA is receiving feedback about a new rule that would affect how utilities provide public notification about CSO discharges into the Great Lakes, and a Louisiana city is preparing to make a final push to fix infrastructure still affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Milwaukee researchers hope to bring awareness to human impact on area waterways through post-holiday water sampling

In this week’s news briefs, Jacksonville Electric Authority prepares to invest millions in sewer upgrades in light of the overflow issues Hurricane Matthew caused, and uncertainty remains about when Congress will approve federal funds to aid the Flint water crisis.

Frank Brey has been at the center of all the city's water and wastewater upgrades of the last six years.

In the Dairy State, a new partnership is taking form: Municipalities and dairy farmers are teaming up to control phosphorus discharges. Here's how this novel approach is bringing point and nonpoint sources together.

Introducing the Mud Chasers, a new breed of stormwater investigators. These volunteers are taking nonpoint source runoff detection to a new level.

In this week’s news briefs, only 16 percent of California’s water agencies are committing to continued water conservation now that state-mandated restrictions have been lifted, and a Wisconsin city’s plan to tap into Lake Michigan is met with some pushback.

Great Lakes communities will use the funds to build green infrastructure that will keep millions of gallons of runoff out of the lakes.