The City of Atlanta is being forced to pay a $290,000 fine to Georgia after dozens of raw sewage spills into the Chattahoochee River.

ATLANTA — The city has agreed to pay a nearly $300,000 penalty after repeated sewage spills from a treatment plant into the Chattahoochee River. Flanked by heavy industry and waterfowl ...

The federal government reversed its decision to close a government office in Norcross, Georgia that monitors flooding and water pollution around the state.

At Monday’s meeting of the Valley City Council, a new recreation director, John Neal, was introduced and an agreement was approved on the sale of property for a new subdivision off 30th Street. Neal ...

Study is one of the first to look at the effects on zooplankton, tiny organisms that are eaten by fish and insects.

We ... certainly don’t have people on boats patrolling waterways,” says an official of the agency responsible for enforcing ...

Four-year-old Rich Barton squealed as he played in the Chattahoochee River on Saturday at Paces Mill, wading in the water with his Spider-Man flip-flops at the park in Cobb County. In warm months ...

A New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) worker is dead, and two others were injured after a raw sewage boat exploded Saturday in the Hudson River. Just after 10:30 a.m. the ...

An explosion Saturday morning aboard a sewage boat docked on New York City's Hudson River killed one city worker and injured two others, officials said. Three Department of Environmental ...

More information: Austin Happel et al, Combined sewer overflows alter zooplankton communities in an urban river, Knowledge & Management of Aquatic Ecosystems (2025). DOI: 10.1051/kmae/2025007 ...