Birmingham Area Working Through Backlog From Consent Decree With EPA

摘要

Jefferson County, Ala., mired in a $4.1 -billion bankruptcy, has gotten one of its nine sewer treatment systems removed from federal court supervision and plans to have the remaining four plants out over the next three years.The Leeds Complete Waste Treatment System, which had been operating under a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency consent decree since December 1996, was removed in an order signed on April 23 by U.S. District Judge J. Foy Guin Jr.