Midges and mistrust: Back River community's concerns with sewage treatment plant

Midges and mistrust: Back River community's concerns with sewage treatment plant

When you see little bugs called midges swarming around your home every night, it's a problem that's impossible to ignore. But people who live in Essex near the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant (BRWWTP) are even more concerned about what they can't see - what the plant is dumping into the water.The midges wouldn't be here if they hadn't start dumping and polluting our river in the first place. Midges are a product of them contaminating our w…