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One metropolis’s struggle to resolve its sewage drawback with sensors
Within the metropolis of South Bend, Indiana, wastewater from folks’s kitchens, sinks, washing machines, and bogs flows by way of 35 neighborhood sewer strains. On good days, simply earlier than every line ends, a vertical throttle pipe diverts the sewage into an interceptor tube, which carries it to a therapy plant the place stable pollution and micro organism are filtered out.
As in lots of American cities, these pipes are mixed with storm drains, which might fill rivers and lakes with poisonous sludge when heavy rains or melted snow overwhelms them, endangering wildlife and ingesting water provides. However metropolis officers have a plan to make its growing older sewers considerably smarter. Learn the complete story.
—Andrew Zaleski
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