(Reuters) - Florida's Miami-Dade County on Tuesday promised to spend $1.6 billion on fixes for its dilapidated, accident-prone sewer system in a deal meant to settle a lawsuit with federal and state environmental officials. Full story
City leaders in Clinton, Iowa agreed to a first approval for a 9.5 percent sewer rate increase Tuesday night, May 14, 2013. Full story
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - As Alabama's Jefferson County readies a workout proposal for its landmark $4.2 billion bankruptcy, officials on Tuesday announced an agreement with creditors JPMorgan Chase and Bayerische Landesbank covering $105 million of defaulted debt. Full story
Worker finds a Civil War era cannonball in an Indiana sewer. WFIE's Erin Meyer reports.
Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry wants to raise the Local Option Income Tax to raise more than $14 million to help pay for next year's budget. Full story
(Reuters) - Alabama's Jefferson County will within two or three months file a workout plan that calls for reducing the bankrupt local government's $4.23 billion of debts by more than $1 billion, according to the county's top elected official. Full story
Two women's body parts were found in the sewers of Warren, Michigan. WDIV reports.
Utility workers return a high school ring they found in sewer lines to its rightful owner, 44 years after it went missing. WAVE’s Matt McCutcheon reports from Kentucky.
A Colombian man claims he has lived inside a sewer for more than 20 years and says, “I live really, really well here." NBCNews.com’s Alex Witt reports.
A 13-year-old boy from Ohio recounts his terrifying trip down a flooded storm sever. WKYC’s Jason Nguyen reports.
Sewer line pipes waiting for installation are stacked near parts of a house that broke off and washed up near the street in Mantoloking, New Jersey, November 21, 2012. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek
Mexican sewer diver Julio Cu Camara, 52, looks through his visor while inside a cage during a dive at the city's drainage system plant in Mexico City March 21, 2013. Cu Camara's job involves diving in the city's sewage system to clear blockages and repair infrastructures, on an average of four times
Mexican sewer diver Julio Cu Camara, 52, wears his helmet before entering a cage for a dive at the city's drainage system plant in Mexico City March 21, 2013. Cu Camara's job involves diving in the city's sewage system to clear blockages and repair infrastructures, on an average of four times a mont
Mexican sewer diver Julio Cu Camara, 52, blows into a glove as he prepares before entering a cage for a dive at the city's drainage system plant in Mexico City March 21, 2013. Cu Camara's job involves diving in the city's sewage system to clear blockages and repair infrastructures, on an average of
