Young’s Creek at Young’s Park on March 21. The area upstream of the Franklin Wastewater Treatment Plant was not affected by the sludge spill. The city of Franklin was fined $15,600 after 36,000 ...

Fertilizer containing potentially unsafe levels of “forever chemicals” has been used around the country. By Hiroko Tabuchi For the past year, I’ve been reporting on how “forever chemicals,” a group of ...

The region’s largest treatment plant was crippled in a catastrophic flood Feb. 9. So when it rains a lot, it pours ­— right out of the plant’s emergency outfall. On three days of heavy rain last month ...

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the Environmental Protection Agency said last week. The risk is highest for people who regularly ...

Using sewage sludge – one of two end products from any wastewater treatment plant (the other is effluent) – as fertilizer on food crops is a hotly debated food safety issue, but only among a very ...

The Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant is a pollution success story. Over the last several decades, it transformed Boston Harbor from a nationally embarrassing cesspool into a swimmable bay. The ...

Sludge, a byproduct of sewage treatment, is often spread on fields as fertilizer. But growing research shows that toxic chemicals like PFAS are lurking in the muck — and getting into our food. Sludge, ...

Madison Village is buying a new piece of equipment to keep its wastewater treatment plant running properly. Village Council has approved an $8,642 purchase order for a close-coupled pump package ...