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One metropolis’s combat to resolve its sewage drawback with sensors
Within the metropolis of South Bend, Indiana, wastewater from folks’s kitchens, sinks, washing machines, and bathrooms flows via 35 neighborhood sewer traces. 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 strong pollution and micro organism are filtered out.
As in lots of American cities, these pipes are mixed with storm drains, which may fill rivers and lakes with poisonous sludge when heavy rains or melted snow overwhelms them, endangering wildlife and consuming water provides. However metropolis officers have a plan to make its ageing sewers considerably smarter. Learn the complete story.Â
—Andrew Zaleski
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