Clean Rivers Campaign featured on Partnership for Working Families blog
Rivers are at the heart of the Pittsburgh region. The area’s economic and environmental revival is closely tied to its rivers, but unfortunately its aging and poorly designed sewer system is creating a crisis. As little as one-tenth of an inch of rain can cause raw sewage and other contaminants to overflow into local rivers.
Kansas City model for wet weather control encouraged
Wednesday was the day that the “green infrastructure” approach to controlling the wet weather discharge of sewage into the region’s rivers, got their due, according to Jennifer Kennedy.
Alcosan gets more time to create green solutions to overflow problem
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signaled its willingness to give the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority much more time to implement a “green first” flow reduction strategy.
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County seek 10-year extension from EPA to reduce river pollutants
Mayor Bill Peduto and county Executive Rich Fitzgerald asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 10-year window to repair infrastructure and implement “green” projects.
Go green, Alcosan
The article “Alcosan’s Wet Weather Plan draws criticism” quotes an Alcosan representative as saying that we cannot fix our sewer overflow problem with rain barrels alone. That statement completely misrepresents the concept of green infrastructure.
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