While Santa Rosa County struggles with efforts to incentivize homeowners to give up their septic tanks in favor of sewer service, the city of Gulf Breeze is working toward a goal of eliminating all ...

One way to help stop harmful algae and invasive weeds from mucking up the ailing Wekiwa and Gemini springs is by digging up septic tanks and replacing them with sewer connections. That’s the goal ...

As South Florida faces sea-level rise, flooding and storm surge, officials are working to switch thousands of septic tanks across the region into sewer connections. “Within a number of years they’re ...

Nearly a decade ago, Pouran Esrafily bought her renovated farmhouse in Limeport, a village in Lower Milford Township, a community she liked for its working-class roots and rural flavor. Esrafily, her ...

Can’t we all agree that we don’t want poop in our water? One thing you learn in journalism school is to never make assumptions. If your mother says she loves you, check it out. But this is a case ...

People don’t see the hazard, “because it is underground, it is out of sight, out of mind,” said Dr. Brian Lapointe, a research professor at Florida Atlantic University, Lapointe launched his first ...

Some Las Vegas Valley residents are objecting to a plan that would force them to dump their septic tanks and tap into the region’s municipal sewer system. Officials with the Southern Nevada Water ...

VERO BEACH — A pilot program could help connect septic tanks at more than two dozen homes on Atlantic Boulevard to the city sewer system. Who's behind the program: Indian River Land Trust, the ...

Miami-Dade County’s plan to address one of the biggest sources of pollution in Biscayne Bay — and one of the grossest consequences of rising seas — kicked off with a ceremonial shovelful of dirt ...

Miami-Dade has — finally — begun chipping away at the $4 billion problem festering beneath homes across the county. The county’s aging collection of septic tanks is failing, and sea level rise will ...