When heavy rain hits Alewife Brook, combined sewer overflows can send sewage-contaminated water into the brook, onto public trails, and into surrounding habitat. Thousands of people living in the Alewife floodplain are exposed to flooding with contaminated water. Consider what happened during an otherwise unremarkable October 2021 storm that brought nearly an inch of rain. […]
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