The Riverdale Press published a good editorial following up on CSO boondoggle issue discussed on the Slog back in August. Here's a snippet of the editorial:

Long Island SoundThree decades ago, the federal government and the state of Connecticut promised the state's citizens clean and healthy water. Jointly they set a goal of separating combined sewer overflows to stop the 2 billion gallons of raw sewage from entering Long Island Sound and major rivers during rainstorms and restoring the Sound's dead-zone by removing approximately 60% of sewage treatment plant nitrogen discharges.

There hasn't been a whole lot of good news in the world of sewage treatment lately, as federal funding is cut and existing infrastructure continues to deteriorate. That's why this story out of Lynchburg, Virginia was music to our ears. The city received the EPA PISCES award for efficient use of its state revolving fund allocation.

Start raiding your piggy banks for clean water. A recent article in the Washington Post estimated that it will cost $28 billion to clean up the Chesapeake Bay - of that $6 billion is needed to repair and upgrade sewage treatment plants.