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Philadelphia's Combined Sewer Overflow Control Plan

5 March 2010 - 1:30pm
Summary: 
Philadelphia's approach to resolve CSO's on a watershed scale with localized solutions

Philadelphia’s Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan Update seeks to meet regulations of the National CSO Control Policy and US EPA through a comprehensive watershed-based approach. The advantage of this broad approach is that it identifies multiple solutions (land-water-infrastructure based) that are cost effective measures. These solutions are localized site specific improvements to problems caused by the impacts of CSO and non-CSO sources of pollution on water quality.

City: 
Philadelphia, PA
Year: 
2007
Pages: 
48
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