Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District

As fewer people are getting tested for the coronavirus in offices, labs and pharmacies, sewer shed surveillance has become one of the most accurate ways to show the virus still exists in the community. The state and its partners at the University of Missouri are monitoring 112 sites to see if viral particles are increasing and if new variants are emerging in the region's wastewater.

St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones beat Alderwoman Cara Spencer, D-20th Ward, on Tuesday to become the city’s first Black woman mayor.

St. Louis voters will also decide races for mayor, aldermanic elections in 16 of the city’s 28 wards, whether again to retain the earnings tax and six ballot issues addressing the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District borrowing $500 million to improve wastewater service and changes to the utility’s charter. St. Louis County voters will also weigh in on MSD.

The work by the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is required by a 2012 settlement over Clean Water Act violations.

After sitting empty for months, offices and commercial buildings in St. Louis are beginning to reopen — many with freshly installed Plexiglas barriers to…

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is building a three-mile sewer line underneath the city of Ladue to address overflow problems in the area.The…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 9, 2012 - The Metropolitan Sewer District’s Board of Trustees approved interim changes to the…

St. Louis and St. Louis County residents on Tuesday rejected a Metropolitan Sewer District tax increase aimed at stopping erosion and flooding.Voters also…

As the Mississippi River continues to rise, utilities and government agencies in the St. Louis region are taking steps to protect sewers, levees and other…

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is asking its customers to pay a little more for stormwater service in an effort to fix problems caused by…