United States v. City of Akron

ORDER

JOHN R. ADAMS, District Judge.

This matter appears before the Court on the Government’s unopposed motion for entry of the proposed consent decree (“the Decree”). The motion is DENIED.

I. Combined Sewers Explained

Generally, there are two types of water collection systems: combined sewer systems and separate sanitary sewer systems. For decades, separate sanitary sewer systems have been the exclusive systems constructed in the United States. As a result, combined sewers are “artifacts of an earlier way of collecting sewage and storm water.” Doc. 68-1 at 3. Mark Klingenstein, a licensed…