Sean Kennedy was so enthralled with his purchase -- a sprawling, four-bedroom house in the Beacon Hill development near Leesburg -- that he paid little attention to the green containers in the back ...

For years, Falmouth has wrestled with the question of how we can clean up our ponds, bays and estuaries from the nitrogen ...

The Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (MASSTC) in Sandwich has received nearly $3.3 million in state and federal funds to expand its wastewater research facility. Pollution from ...

The recent attention to failing septic systems in the Lowcountry provides the opportunity for innovative solutions. It’s time to think outside the tank. Or, more specifically, the drain field. Sea ...

There are 360,000 older septic systems in Suffolk County and about 35,000 on the North Shore of Nassau, most of them slowly leeching nitrogen into the groundwater and Long Island’s streams, rivers and ...

A development company looking to build a large subdivision off Baxley Road in East Milton has offered to install and maintain a sewage system of its own as an alternative to putting hundreds more ...