Carterville residents say sewage floods their homes and yards. A new wastewater treatment plant could resolve the issue, but construction hasn’t started.| Illinois Answers Project
Five dozen communities in Southern Illinois account for a third of the reported sanitary sewer overflows in the state in the last decade.| Capitol News Illinois
Sanitary sewer overflows, SSOs, are a release of untreated or partially treated waste from a city sewer. Sanitary sewer overflows are illegal. But when normal systems become overloaded through heavy rain or a larger load from an increasing population, SSOs occur.| Illinois Answers Project