Photo Courtesy of Missouri Coalition for the Environment This week we saw a positive development from the Missouri and federal governments when they jointly filed an enforcement action against the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD). The Missouri Coalition for the Environment has long felt that a schedule of remedies should be imposed on MSD to keep it on track as it cleans up the sewers in St. Louis.

You know a city's got serious sewage problems when the local sewer district consistently uses streams and rivers as a back up for its failing sewer systems. This is the case in St. Louis, where rain causes rampant sewage discharges from the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's more than 500 Sewer Overflows (200 Combined Sewer Overflows and 300 Sanitary Sewer Overflows).