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Residents urge Somerville to prioritize fixes for Tannery Brook CSO; council sends matter to finance committee
Summary
Save the Alewife Brook speakers told the council that repeated combined sewer overflows (CSOs) have flooded neighborhoods and parks with untreated sewage; presenters asked the city to prioritize spending on Alewife-area projects and the council voted to send the matter to the finance committee for follow-up.
Residents from Save the Alewife Brook told the Somerville City Council on March 13 that the city’s Tannery Brook combined sewer overflow (CSO) is causing repeated flooding of untreated sewage into nearby parks, paths, and basements and urged the city to prioritize CSO control work for the Alewife Brook watershed.
Why it matters: Presenters said flood water containing untreated sewage poses public-health and environmental-justice concerns for neighborhoods downstream of the Tannery Brook outfall. The group showed slides and cited multiple years of overflow volumes and instances when the…
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