Old Lyme — With an agreement again in place for New London to accept wastewater from four beach communities here, local officials are continuing their constipated effort to build the sewer ...

A decade after it was revealed, London's "super sewer" is now finally complete. The mega-project is expected to revolutionize the handling of waste in the British capital, boosting the capacity of ...

Old Lyme — Arline Aniello, a Sound View Beach resident for 45 years, was waiting this week for a quote to replace the septic system pipes beneath one of her two homes here. Aniello, 94, sweeping ...

London has a combined sewer system, which means sewage and rain flow into the same pipes. Storms frequently overwhelmed the system, spilling around 40 million tons of sewage into the Thames annually.

The new super sewer construction to link it with 34 old outlets began in 2016 (Picture: Thames Tideway Tunnel) The tunnel diameter could fit three buses side-by-side. Latest London news ...

“The old Victorian London sewer system, when it overflows and comes into the river, that’s the central problem. So there’s one line of defence for Thames Water, and they’ve done that.

Spring rains that once might have spilled sewage into the River Thames are instead filling up London’s new “super sewer” – a massive network of tunnels designed to bring the city’s plumbing into the ...