Word: storm
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Independently of the MWRA, some Charles River communities such as Cambridge are beginning to separate their sewer lines from their storm drains...
With a greater capacity to clean waste-water generated during storms, raw sewage that mixes with storm water and empties into the river from combined sewer outflows (CSOs) will be almost totally eliminated--a major boon for water quality...
Although CSOs are a significant factor in the water quality problems, storm water runoff is also a major issue...
Solving the problem of storm water runoff, however, is not so simple...
Instead of treating CSO output with chlorine, Moraff and Zimmerman advocate eliminating CSOs by entirely disconnecting municipal storm drains from sewer lines, a process which for the Charles River alone would cost an estimated $200 million...