A long-delayed project critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup reached an early milestone last week, as the city finished excavating space for a massive underground sewer ...

On the banks of Brooklyn’s heavily polluted Gowanus Canal, Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday ceremonially broke ground on the first of two long-delayed underground sewage overflow tanks, designed to ...

Here we describe an electronic system that uses a dedicated water-level sensor to switch off the pump motor as soon as the ...

Two tanks installed more than 30 years ago to catch overflows from the city’s “combined sanitary-and-storm sewer system are working well to minimize harm caused by effluent discharged to area streams, ...