The U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, entered into consent decrees with two Northeast Ohio communities, mandating cities make modernizing repairs to their sewer systems to address sewer overflows into Lake Erie and Rocky River in Lakewood, and the Black River in Elyria, and bring both cities sewer systems into compliance with the Clean Water Act. Read and listen to the full story by WKSU – Kent, OH.
Northeast Ohio cities face consent decrees to repair sewer systems. What does that mean?
