Clean Water Act

On today’s episode of The Confluence: A recap of U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman’s return to the campaign trail, and news about Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano’s use of military imagery; we look back on water protection in western Pennsylvania since the Clean Water Act was created in 1972; and what greater access to public restrooms in Downtown Pittsburgh could mean for visitors and businesses. Today’s guests include: Chris Potter, WESA’s Government and Accountability Editor; Heather Hulton VanTassel, Executive Director, Three Rivers Waterkeeper; Heather Starr Fielder, chair of the Department of Community Engagement and Leadership at Point Park University.

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has been sentenced in federal court for violating the Clean Water Act. According to federal prosecutors, PWSA dumped a type of waste known as clarifier sludge into the Allegheny River multiple times between 2010 and 2017. It also gave ALCOSAN inaccurate numbers about the amount of sludge it was sending to ALCOSAN’s waste treatment facility.

Nearly 20 years after Pittsburgh was told it needed to do something about combined sewer overflows, the city and Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority are…

Siobhan Vivian and Rachael Lippincott started as teacher and student, one shepherding two courses of "Writing Youth Literature," and the other still on…

An environmental group is criticizing Pennsylvania for its high numbers of Clean Water Act violations.It says at least part of the fix should come from…

A new report reveals that industrial facilities in Pennsylvania are among the top polluters of United States rivers, including a chemical company just 16…

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, ALCOSAN, expects to design the expansion of its treatment plant this spring, with construction beginning in late…

The state Department of Environmental Protection is working to speed up the training of several new water inspectors, in an effort to bring water safety…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won't declare Ohio's western end of Lake Erie impaired by toxic algae, siding with state regulators who say they…

The Confluence Borough Municipal Authority has agreed to update part of its sewer infrastructure to prevent untreated sewage from making its way into the…