Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The removal of stagnant sludge water from an aeration pond near the Meadow Village topped the Big ...

Baldwin County Sewer Service will have to remove a sludge pond at their Fort Morgan treatment facility, if the Gulf Shores City Council follows the recommendation of the city’s planning commission.

When Rhonda Caviedes arrived to visit her parent’s mobile home in March, she stepped outside and caught a whiff of something so foul that she immediately called 911. “The city fire department comes ...

When the Waukegan Park District built the pond in 1969 in what is now Bevier Park, it was 100% water with no sediment. Now, it is 39% sediment and 61% water. By the time the sediment is removed this ...