As Jennifer Loughran led a tour of Barnstable Clean Water Coalition’s Shubael Pond Project, she called a newly installed NitROE wastewater treatment septic system a “living laboratory.” “Maybe ...

SANDWICH — On the southeastern edge of Joint Base Cape Cod, at an unassuming spot between the Francis A. Crane Wildlife Management Area and Otis Air National Guard Base, experimentation is taking ...

The Wellfleet Board of Health is working on regulations that would require owners of central district properties with cesspools and failing septic systems to upgrade ...

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has not decided whether to sign legislation to nullify Loudoun County's five-year moratorium on the installation of alternative septic systems. The General Assembly gave final ...

PLYMOUTH – It didn’t have the deep, low voice of warning that is best exemplified by a fog horn, but the Board of Health’s decision to postpone a decision on a request for variances for a residential ...

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 ...

MARSTONS MILLS — Two septic tanks may be better than one, at least when the second tank can do what the first won't. The Sandy Shores neighborhood along the shore of Shubael Pond will help test for ...

Suffolk officials on Monday presented a draft of a new code that would legalize new nitrogen-reducing septic systems for individual homes, and detailed a plan to identify where efforts targeting the ...