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Group Says Stalled Plan On Penn. Sewage Needs Action
Law360 (May 7, 2021, 7:20 PM EDT) An environmental group asked to intervene in a federal court suit over Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sewage overflows and said in a proposed new complaint that officials must be forced to finally make significant efforts to comply with the law.
The Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association asked Thursday to step in to the 6-year-old case so it could file new claims, saying a 2015 consent decree has failed to force meaningful change and it s necessary to establish deadlines to force the system into compliance with the Clean Water Act and other laws. The group says the city and Capital Region Water, or CRW, which handles.
‘A third-world problem’: 584 million gallons of Harrisburg-area wastewater discharged untreated in 2020
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Today 10:30 AM
Capital Region Water discharged 584 million gallons of untreated sewage into the Susquehanna River in 2020.
Jimmie Brown | jbrown@pennlive.com
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Capital Region Water discharged 584 million gallons of untreated sewage into the Susquehanna River 41 percent of all the water that entered the system in 2020.
Last April, while most people were preoccupied with a global pandemic, the Trump-era U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised an alarm over Capital Region Water’s failure to prevent sewer overflows.
“Despite the lengthy discussions and analyses undertaken . . . CRW still seems to be struggling with the concept of the [long-term control] plan,” the letter reads.
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The volunteers gather during the Earth Day Cleanup event at Windolph Landing Park in Lancaster Township Saturday April 17, 2021.
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Ted Evgeniadis, a Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, speaks to the volunteers during an Earth Day cleanup event at Windolph Landing Park in Lancaster Township Saturday April 17, 2021.
ANDY BLACKBURN | Staff Photographer
The volunteers walk to the area to start picking up the litter during the Earth Day Cleanup event at Windolph Landing Park in Lancaster Township Saturday April 17, 2021.
ANDY BLACKBURN | Staff Photographer
MU sophomore Mark Winther picks up the litter during the Earth Day Cleanup event at Windolph Landing Park in Lancaster Township Saturday April 17, 2021.
Two bodies of water in York County were found to have two different types of microplastics present, according to a recent statewide survey by PennEnvironment.
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