‘We Had to Pick up Your Pieces’: Southern Water Grilled over Poor Performance

‘We had to pick up your pieces’: Southern Water grilled over poor performance

A water company was quizzed by councillors over its poor record and how it expects to cope with an influx of tens of thousands of new homes.

How Southern Illinois is Coping with Decades of Sewage Flooding… and Why it Still Isn’t Solved. – Illinois Answers Project

Cahokia Heights tried the 2021 merger and applications for numerous grants to remedy the problem with mixed results. Other communities with overflow issues have tried approaches like selling parts of their sewer systems. While these residents wait for relief they continue to endure property damage, fear and distrust of the drinking water and damaging health impacts.

Wasted Waters: How Southern Illinois is Coping with Decades of Sewage Flooding… and Why it Still Isn’t Solved.

Credit: Kyle Pyatt for Illinois Answers Project CAHOKIA HEIGHTS — Arianna Norris, 63, paid cash for her home in Cahokia Heights. For as long as she’s lived there, during intense rainstorms, water surrounds her property and last year her basement started flooding.  Norris was around four years ago when residents in Alorton, Cahokia, and Centreville voted for the merger that created Cahokia Heights and disbanded the Commonfields of Cahokia Public …