1. SSO’s (Sanitary Sewer Overflow) & CSO’s (Combined Sewer Overflow) that are polluting our drinking water need to be corrected.
   

2. 850 Billion Gallons of Raw Sewage flow into our Rivers and Lakes every year all across America.
   

3. 800,000 miles of sewer pipe in the United States* of which nearly 18 percent is large diameter (36 inch to 20 feet).
   

4. The courts, by consent decrees, have ordered the cleanup of the sewer & drainage systems under the “Clean Water Act of 1972” in a vast number of our communities.
   

 * Based on a study on large diameter pipe, by the University of Texas, Arlington