Sewage; Don't Blame the Tunnel; Sewer Overflows Will Continue Until the Region Stops the Threat Posed by Sanitary Sewer Leaks and Runoff Pollution.

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Overwhelmed by saturated ground and a heavy rainfall, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District last week released 399 million gallons of untreated sewage and storm water into area waterways from combined sewers in central Milwaukee and a portion of Shorewood. District officials said the overflows were necessary to avoid basement backups, which pose a serious public health hazard, and officials point that the amount released was about one-fourth of the total flow that was successfully stored in the deep tunnel system and treated at the district's two sewage plants during that time.

But the overflows also pose a serious threat. They should be almost as unacceptable as allowing polluted water to flood basements.

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Sewage; Don't Blame the Tunnel; Sewer Overflows Will Continue Until the Region Stops the Threat Posed by Sanitary Sewer Leaks and Runoff Pollution.

District officials are working to improve the system, and they need to make sure the syst...

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