Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens civil rights probe in Alabama

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By Lylla YounesOct 10, 2023, 4:15 am192 pts
Sewage collecting in crudely dug trenches. Failing septic tanks that send waste bubbling into backyards. These are some of the common sights across Alabama’s Black Belt, a strip of 24 continuous counties blessed with deep fertile soil but long plagued by inadequate wastewater infrastructure and the…

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