On the banks of Brooklyn’s heavily polluted Gowanus Canal, Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday ceremonially broke ground on the first of two long-delayed underground sewage overflow tanks, designed to ...

A long-delayed project critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup reached an early milestone last week, as the city finished excavating space for a massive underground sewer ...

The city broke ground yesterday on the first of two long-delayed sewage overflow tanks along the Gowanus Canal, preventing raw waste from spilling back into the partially cleaned Superfund site as a ...

Two tanks installed more than 30 years ago to catch overflows from the city’s “combined sanitary-and-storm sewer system are working well to minimize harm caused by effluent discharged to area streams, ...

A federal official has said that current and future residents of Gowanus should know that the ongoing cleanup of the Gowanus Canal is “inadequate,” and will remain that way until the city finishes ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Chief Climate Officer and New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala, and U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Additional sewage overflow tanks for Chattanooga are expected to be in place by May 2027, members of the city's Industrial Development Board were told Monday. Mark Heinzer, who heads the city's ...

Paris’s Austerlitz basin is a giant stormwater overflow tank the size of 20 Olympic swimming pools. It is the centerpiece of a $1.5 billion public works project that aims to make the Seine River, ...