Scavenging through trash is largely legal— and sometimes even profitable. During the Great Recession, some Ohioans collected aluminum cans for extra cash, while others, like Cleveland environmentalist ...

Raleigh’s viral sewer blobs still spark debate 16 years later. Harmless critters or underground cryptids? Scientists remain ...

Orwigsburg Borough Council has rescinded its approval of a commercial water and sewer rate change, saying it mistakenly took that vote even though the change was not listed on that evening’s agenda.

There is no state law that makes it illegal to dumpster dive in Massachusetts.

Deep sewer repairs which have angered residents and businesses since August will take until at least Christmas, a council has said. Access through Evendons Lane in Wokingham has been shut by what ...

A training exercise by a local commercial diving operation led to the discovery of some unusual items on the bottom of the Red River near Selkirk, Man. Shawn Goertzen of Submerged Underwater Services ...

Thames Waters says the "fatberg" weighed the equivalent weight of eight double-decker buses A blockage estimated to be around 100 tonnes has been cleared from a west London sewer. Thames Water said a ...

APOPKA, Fla. — Orange County is over a quarter of the way done converting 2,000 homes in Apopka from septic to the sewer system. It’s an effort to help protect Wekiwa Springs and the Wekiva River from ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Officials with Honolulu’s Department of Environmental Services are urging residents to use less water to save on sewer bills. Sewer rates in Hawaii are set to rise 6% on Jan ...

An effort to establish a septic to sewer ordinance in Santa Rosa County failed Oct. 9 by a 3-2 margin The state statute in question mandates that citizens whose homes are utilizing septic tanks have, ...

The Mount Airy Town Council on Monday held off on approving a 26% hike for water and sewer rates; the council will revisit the rate hike next month. Town officials agreed that a rate hike is necessary ...

More than 15,000 commercial wastewater customers with the county could soon see their rates rise 16 percent. The proposed hike stems from preliminary findings of an ongoing rate structure study ...