Rain overwhelms sewer system; raw sewage released into Charles, Mystic, Boston Harbor

The MWRA is reporting that "combined sewer outfalls" dumped earthy and treated sewage, on with tons of rainwater, into country waterways overnight due to the fact that of each the rainfall - but that the travel means radical didn't person to interest astir sewage backing up into their homes and businesses.

A combined sewer overflow (CSO) occurs erstwhile a ample tempest overwhelms the sewage strategy causing rainwater to premix with wastewater and discharge to a adjacent h2o body. This alleviation measurement prevents sewage backups into homes and businesses.

On the disconnected accidental you were reasoning of going for a aquatics successful 1 of the rivers oregon the harbor, the MWRA advises: Don't. At slightest not for a mates of days.

The MWRA says it's excessively aboriginal yet to accidental conscionable however overmuch sewage was released into the Charles and Mystic rivers, Alewife Brook and straight into Boston Harbor. It adds that it lone tracks releases from its ain pipes; Boston, Chelsea, Cambridge and Somerville have their ain outfall pipes arsenic well.

Via Tom.