Wastewater

Suffolk County will get $20 million to upgrade wastewater infrastructure.

Yale University researchers collecting samples from a New Haven water treatment facility found substantially fewer incidences of the virus in recent samples than were recorded a month ago.

The mask mandate for schools and childcare facilities in Connecticut will end on February 28.

Experts said COVID-19 samples in wastewater allow them to predict an outbreak in a community five to seven days before testing data catches up.

Huntington Station on Long Island will get a much needed sewer infrastructure upgrade, starting in 2024.

The Bridgeport City Council in Connecticut has authorized a $395 million state-required upgrade to its worn out wastewater system.Council members say the…

Scientists at Yale took a look at the diet of tadpoles in suburban ponds, and they made a discovery that – fair warning – is a bit gross. It turns out…

East Hampton has become the first town in Suffolk County to require low-nitrogen septic systems in all new buildings. It’s one of two laws passed to help…

A group of state lawmakers is teaming up with environmental groups to ask Governor Cuomo’s administration to ban the use of wastewater from hydrofracking…

Environmental scientists say that almost three-quarters of Suffolk County homes use a septic system. But what happens when that wastewater goes down the…