This report is part of the Troubled Water project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of ...

Water that comes out brown, irritates the skin and has a chemical taste and smell — these are just a few of the water woes people in the University Area of Hillsborough County say they have lived with ...

Septic systems — typically an underground tank to trap toilet waste and perforated piping to let the liquid percolate into the soil — are used by nearly one in five American households and countless ...

During a flood, septic systems should not be used, the county says. Standing water around a septic system will cause the ground to not absorb wastewater from sinks and toilets, the county says. Septic ...

Q: I recently moved from a house on a city sewer system to a rural retirement home that has a septic tank. What can you tell me about septic tanks? At my last home, I had clogging issues in my main ...

As South Florida faces sea-level rise, flooding and storm surge, officials are working to switch thousands of septic tanks across the region into sewer connections. “Within a number of years they’re ...

It’s an unusual but very busy time for local real estate. Buyer demand is high, but inventory is low, which means homes are selling quickly and for top dollar. In today’s environment, buyers are ...

Charleston County has around $2 million to help income-eligible residents repair or replace their wells and septic tanks, or connect their homes to existing lines. Employees with the Community ...

Too many Lowcountry waterfront homeowners and businesses flush toilets into septic tanks in spots where they could hook into sewers, and water quality in our tidal creeks suffers because of it.

People don’t like to talk about sewage. But no matter how much we would like to avoid it, the truth is that sewage treatment is the foundation of a city’s health and well-being. There are a lot of ...