A $278 million combined sewer overflow (CSO) project has improved Lansing’s rivers, vastly reducing and nearly eliminating the amount of untreated sewage seeping into the Grand and Red Cedar rivers.
According to excerpts from the article:
Last spring, a foot of rain that nourished lawns across the city also imposed an environmental cost.
Nearly 200 million gallons of untreated water — murky with raw sewage — emerged from the city's antiquated network of underground pipes in March, April and May, according to city reports marking the progress of Lansing's combined sewer overflow project.
Where the most expensive public works project in the city's history has laid new pipes for sewage and converted old pipes to handle storm water, the spill off into the Grand and Red Cedar rivers is virtually clear of untreated sewage.
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